Cindy(Alt version)

Verse 1

She keeps a bird in her back pocket

Sings to it in the dead of night

Talks in riddles at the corner diner

Ordering coffee black as her eyes

Cindy wears a crown of paper

Says her ex was a magician

Holds the sidewalk like a stage

One more act and she's forgotten

Pre-Chorus

And she walks the line

Between the real and the cartoon

And she walks the line

Never knowing she's the joke or the muse

Chorus

Cindy oh Cindy

What you running from tonight

Cindy sweet Cindy

You're a stranger in your own light

Crazy little Cindy

You don't have to be polite

Verse 2

Her stories change like the streetlights

Some nights she's from the moon

Says she once dated a millionaire

Who stole her silver spoon

She collects the broken things

Bottle caps and promises

I just watch her from the bar

Wondering which part of her is this

Pre-Chorus

And she walks the line

With a matchbook and a grin

And she walks the line

Every worn-out road's her kin

Chorus

Cindy oh Cindy

What you running from tonight

Cindy sweet Cindy

You're a stranger in your own light

Crazy little Cindy

You don't have to be polite

Bridge

She ain't dirty just unusual

Just a script she never wrote

Every smile a different doorway

Every shadow a new coat

Chorus

Cindy oh Cindy

What you running from tonight

Cindy sweet Cindy

You're a stranger in your own light

Crazy little Cindy

You don't have to be polite

Outro

Cindy

Cindy

Oh Cindy