I wanna tell ya 'bout a girl   You know, she lives in room 29   Why, why that's the one right up top a mine   I start to cry, I start to cry      Oh I hear her walkin'   Walkin' barefoot cross the boards   All through this lonesome night   I hear her cryin' too   Hot-tears come splashin' on down   Leaking through the cracks      Down upon my face, I catch 'em in my mouth   I catch 'em in my mouth   I catch 'em in my mouth   I catch 'em in my mouth   Walk n' cry, walk n' cry   Walk n' cry, walk n' cry      From her to eternity   From her to eternity   From her to eternity      I read her diary on her sheets   Scrutinizin' every lil' bit of dirt   Tore out a page n' stufft it inside my shirt   I fled outa the window   And shinning it down the vine   Outa her nightmare, and back into mine   Mine, O mine      From her to eternity   From her to eternity   Cry, cry, cry   Cry, cry, cry      She's wearing them bloo-stockens, I bet!   And standin' like this with my ear to the ceiling   Listen, I know it must sound absurd   but I can hear the most melancholy sound I ever heard   Walk n' cry, walk n' cry   Kneel n' cry, kneel n' cry      From her to eternity   From her to eternity      Oh tell me why? Oh tell me why?   Oh Why? Why? Why?   Oh tell me why and don't tell me a lie!   Why the ceiling still shakes? Shake! Shake! Shake!   And all the fixtures turn to serpents and snakes?      This desire to possess her is a wound   And it's naggin' at me like a shrew   But, I know, that to possess her   Is, therefore, not to desire her      Oh then, that lil' girl would just have to go   Go! Go! From her to eternity   Go from her to eternity   From her to eternity      From her to eternity   From her to eternity   From her to eternity   From her to eternity      From her to eternity   From her to eternity   From her to eternity   From her to eternity   Cry, cry, cry   Cry, cry, cry, cry