China Doll lyrics

A pistol shot at 5 o'clock

The bells of heaven ring

Tell me what you done it for

No I won't tell you a thing

Yesterday I begged you

before I hit the ground -

all I leave behind me

is only what I found

If you can abide it

let the hurdy-gurdy play -

Stranger ones have come by here

before they flew away

I will not condemn you

nor yet would I deny"

I would ask the same of you

but failing will not die

Take up your china doll

it's only fractured -

and just a little nervous

from the fall

• Artist:Suzanne Vega