She wore a half smile   always laughing in the wind   I know it sounds cliched but it's all true   I know it sounds cliched but I love you      She wore an old black trenchcoat   to cover up her skin   she weren't no fool, she didn't let nobody in   pulled off the highway, they strip searched the van   all the cops are so bored in Ashland...Ohio      She took a picture of every town that she been through   an empty postcard store in her mind's eye   and tipped her hat to the passers by   I forgot and got the man, Malcom X and Billy Graham   they cried out, "I don't know you from Eve, Madam!"      and they believe you if you swear you're telling lies   and that's the ties by the violence   they are clapping their hands      Stripped to her senses   she wanted to go home   sometimes he'd take her there   sometimes he'd just kept on drinking   sometimes to despair      and she wore a half smile   always laughing in the wind   I know it sounds cliche by it's all true   I know it sounds cliched, but I love you      and they believe you if you swear you're telling lies   and that's the ties by the violence   they are clapping their hands