The Wallflowers Sidewalk Annie song lyrics

She told you about it through a broken, bleeding windpipe

It shook your bones and made your life feel skin-tight.

Sidewalk Annie,

Now your coattails have come undone.

Your whisper's a scream now

Since you don't speak to anyone.

Howlin' winds could never care what she liked,

Rhythm and Blues or A Stranger in the Night

It tore up the trailer with the sounds of a howlin' wolf

The cellar was stone, even the garden was bulletproof.

Sidewalk Annie,

Now your coattails have come undone.

Your whisper's a scream now

Since you don't speak to anyone.

Little girl in your white ice skates

We've seen your face walkin' around the old school gates

With a hand on your hip, and the other one on your head

You realized it wasn't gone, but lost instead.

Sidewalk Annie,

Now your coattails have come undone.

Your whisper's a scream now

Since you don't speak to anyone.

Invested a nickel into the banks of a wishing well,

Blew out the candles and I hoped for somethin' that she could,

She could sell.

Sidewalk Annie,

Now your coattails come undone.

Your whisper's a scream now

Since you don't speak to anyone.