She ran until her face was numb with cold   And wore a cotton gown that blazed the night untold   She ran until her feet refused to hold   So heavy a heart for someone merely ten years old   And when she reached the river her knees began to shiver   Her head with pounding voices from home   Behind her was a vision, a painful apparition   Of a darker world that no one should know      Somebody's bed will never be warm again   The river will keep this friend   The somebody's bed will never be warm again   No never again      She dived beneath the water's icy skin   Hoping the cold would kill the smell of angry gin   And her eyes grew wider than they'd ever been   Just wishing the numbness to cut deeper with its pins   And as her body lay there she decided to stay there   Till darkness came to pull her away   And beautifully she sank as up river was the bank   Where some bodiless troubles would stay      Somebody's bed will never be warm again   The river will keep this friend   Somebody's bed will never be warm again   No never again      Somebody's bed will never be warm again   The river will keep this friend   Somebody's bed will never be warm again   No never again   No never again