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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?