Susan

Susan treading the driveway at four in the morning causes the light to come on

But the key in the yale lock doesn’t work

As she struggles with the door handle she’s trying not to let anyone know

Anyone know that it’s her

She can hear her mum sleeping, her Dad quiet as a rat

She should have been home hours ago but she couldn’t make herself turn back

As she creeps up to her room her mobile phone vibrates in the pocket of her coat

She flips the front to see who her message is from,

To see if the night’s been a result

There are three messages waiting, two wondering where she is

But the third one matters, because it’s his

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She’s Daddies little girl

Not the kind to lose her temper, or ever hurt herself

She’s Daddies little girl,

And somehow she can fall somewhere else

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She knows this guy called Peter who knows her brother Paul

And she’d seen him around

On her way out tonight she thought she give him a call

And meet him in town

They went to a dark bar, he bought all the drinks,

The rest of the night is a dark blur, now she’s trying to make herself think

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She remembers conversation, then she was on her way home

And everything else isn’t there

She gets ready for bed and she’s brushing the comb

Brushing it though her hair

She sees some cuts and a bruise on her neck

And some dark markings, she’d never noticed that

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She’s Daddies little girl

Not the kind to lose her temper, or ever hurt herself

She’s Daddies little girl,

And somehow she can fall somewhere else

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So what happened this evening out at the bar

She hasn’t got a clue

But she can’t sleep and she keeps thinking,

But what she’s thinking can’t be true

He was such a nice man, bought all the drinks

Now it’s slowly dawning what everyone will think

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So she switches her phone on again and it simply says

Thanks for a great time

She doesn’t know what time he had,

But it was a different time

She’s feels certain, she’ll never see him again

Never again will she feel close to a man

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She’s Daddies little girl

Not the kind to lose her temper, or ever hurt herself

She’s Daddies little girl,

And somehow she can fall somewhere else