She dialed the number, scared as hell,
Convinced that she could do it
Cause she really had no choice but
Call someone, somewhere now.
For days and weeks she'd been alone
No one to hold her close,
No one to tell her she was loved
No one to keep her warm,
Just lonely loneliness down town
Where strangers could have been friends
Had she'd not been taught to stay away
From them, everyone, everywhere,
To trust them not - no not one.
Twenty one times the phone tone rang
Somewhere in her parents home
But, no one answered, said “Hello”.
The recorder had been turned off too
For somewhere, a party ran the night
And there was silence in her mind
And in her heart about the space
Of half a thought.
They stuffed her in their body bag
And listed her as another unknown
Who died in old downtown last night
Scared and all alone.