I remember one young sister with rainbows in her eyes

Standing on a corner with the afternoon′s supply

She spoke of other places, perhaps a better roadThen she asked if I could tell her

Where they kept the mother load

Like a night this side of dying

Her day's inside the dropper on the shelf

When she hears her lifeline crying

Not a thing you say can stop her

When she just can′t stop herself

I remember that July, the panic and the heat

The savage shine of summer, the strychnine in the street

The way that sold each other for a favour in glassine

The best of friends sold brothers

For a dime of quinine dreams

Like a night this side of dying

Her day's inside the dropper on the shelf

Like the shelter she's been buying

Not a thing I′ve got can save her

When she just can′t save herself

She just can't save herself