For the Girl

Have you seen her on the corner of the dark side of the city

Like a whisper by the river, she's another unheard story

Treated like an afterthought in a parking lot all alone

Born a boy, but she's a woman, puts on a good show down at the theater

But after hours, after flowers, from the crowd that came to see her

She finds out on her way back home that it ain't safe to walk on your own

We don't have to long, this cannot go on

There's been no movement, there's been no changes

There's been no silence for the girl

Way over yonder, there was a mother