Girl from Indiana

We'd see her play that dive downtown

Where we'd go after work to drink

She seemed to pray, lost in the mountains

When she closed her eyes to sing

Nobody cared if she sucked at piano

She wrote heartbreaking songs

If I was scared for the girl from Indiana

I wouldn't have been wrong

If it feels like darkness then it's dark

Sometimes the light stays away

Was she all alone?

Too far from home?

I think about her

I think about her every day

She met a burly Appalachian man

They raised two girls and a boy

The kind of situation that might

Bring that girl some joy

She shared her wisdom

Held my hand

When my world had come unglued

I was too self-absorbed to understand

That she might need help too

If it feels like darkness then it's dark

If something is missing who's to say

Though everyone was home

She felt alone

I think about her

I think about her every day

I traded the hills for the shore

And all our friends went in every direction

We'd call, we'd visit everyone swore

But so quick we lost that connection

But when her man fell for a stranger

She had nothing left to lose

Her kids had all found their own way

So she buried her anger

In the pills and the booze

Just to get through the day

It's not a good thing, I have to assume

All that time by herself

The echoes of footsteps in bare empty rooms

Raise their own kind of hell

It's hard to put up a fight

When there's no help in sight

The devil got her alone

So to put out the light

She drank through the night

Before the sun rose she was gone

If it feels like darkness then it's dark

If it's hopeless who's to say

Did she think she didn't matter

Cause all her people scattered

I think about her

I think about her

If it feels like darkness then it's dark

Sometimes the light stays away

Was she all alone?

Too far from home?

I think about her

I think about her every day