Lyrics

got a letter this morning, no return address
somehow I was chosen when she wanted to confess
she wrote that growing up the pain was just to much
that small town was so damn cruel
if you didn't play by their rules
she lived to sing the blues
gettin high was how she made it through

little girl blue adored from a far
didnt she always want to be that star
little girl blue swept us away
no one expected she would stay

as i read on in between the lines
i thought back to that day i first heard her sing summertime
she wrote that every night
after the show
the men had their girls
in her room she was all alone
she lived to sing the blues
gettin high was how she made it through

in the last lines
she wrote she had kicked it many times
now she'd been clean and full of pride
but another night alone and she was sunk
just one last time when the guy came by with the junk
she lived to sing the blues
gettin high was how she made it through