Regina
He saw you standing there
Light all through your dark hair
He knew he'd give you everything, Regina
The definition of love's young dream
Body tight as a well sewn seam
His kind eyes would look out for you, Regina
One sister buried deep
Two parents broken
Three French kisses
Fourteen turns of the year
You packed your bags to go
Planned to head to Mexico
A new life where the cops would never call, Regina
You met at sunset on highway ten
Looking back only now and then
To gather up your memories of the chimney stacks and the stench, Regina
One freed spirit
Two hearts stitched together
One night of tenderness
Three turns of the world
Singing songs and chanting rhymes
In a t-shirt you mended too many times
Sun on your back and the dust on your shoes, Regina
Truck stopped to pick you up
Stack your plate and fill your cup
A kindly traveller on the road, Regina
But darkness came all too fast
Happiness like this wasn't meant to last
He tied you up and he broke you down Regina
He killed your boy and dumped him there
Used your body and cut your hair
Now he will ever let you leave, Regina
One chain of reinforced steel
One bloodstained mattress
One suitcase full of nightmares
Eighteen turning wheels
Bound by the ankles and the wrists, Regina
Cut where you hadn't yet been kissed, Regina
You'll never walk down Strawberry Road
You'll never walk down Strawberry Road
In a barn in Illinois
The place where you would die
In a grown-up black dress and high heels, Regina
He took one last picture of you
Abbatoir resignation all over you
And it would really steal your soul, Regina
One childhood faded and gone
One dream perished
So many hearts broken with
Sixteen turns of the wire
Writer/s: Ann-Marie Doyle