my love
You put your head through hell
Your body was clean, sweet love
But oh, your life was far
from being well
When you were sixteen, my love
You'd come to be what was
So much had you seen, sweet love
Your face went deathly pale,
with hollow eyes
You burned yourself out,
you burned yourself out
You did yourself in and then
All of the noise, the pills and the boys
You burned yourself out again
And then you turned seventeen,
I took you like a game.
But others had known you well,
And taught you every move
that I could name.
So then you gave up our love
And lived our full ups and downs
The strangers would pick you up
And take you in the back to
other towns
You've burned yourself out,
you've burned yourself out,
and wound up in Idaho
You married a cop,
the babies don't stop,
there's no further out to go
You've burned yourself out,
you've burned yourself out
You've digged yourself in and then
For all that you've blamed,
you've fled up and flamed
And burned yourself out again
You've burned yourself out,
you've burned yourself out
You dipped yourself in and then
All of the noise, the pills and the voice
You've burned yourself out and then