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She laid her head on the bar
Watching tiny little stars
Dance around in front of her eyes
And he cried on her shoulder
As he sat there and told her
Sad stories and pretty white lies
And if not for that one indiscretion
It would have been an uneventful day
If not for that single obsession
Things would never have gone that way
But she had one last drink and she didn't think twice
In fact she didn't think at all
My, my, How far can a little girl fall?
They walked out of the bar
She climbed into his car
And they drove to somewhere deep in the night
Where she slipped off her ring
And the rest of her things
And he switched off the tiny dome light
She fell back in his arms without the slightest alarm
Forgetting everything her mama once said
And just for a moment in the back of her mind
A tiny picture come and went in her head
Oh she remembered a man who was waiting at home
And a baby barely learning to crawl
My, my, How far can a little girl fall?
At six fifteen the baby woke up at home
And the crying shook her daddy awake
At a quarter to seven he made the decision
He thought he'd never have to make
Then at eight forty-five that girl came back to life
In the back seat of a fancy car
To a world of disgrace and a smile on the face
Of some stranger from a downtown bar
At nine o'clock she put the key in the lock
Just a little too late to explain
But she took one minute more before she opened the door
She went over her story again
Well the child and the man were both long long gone
And the note said "Goodbye" and that's all
My, my, How far can a little girl fall?
Oh-O-O-Oh My, my, How far can a little girl fall?