I wanna tell you 'bout a girl   You know, she lives in room 29   Why   Why that's the one right up top o' mine   I start to cry, I start to cry      Oh, I hear her walkin'   Walkin' barefoot 'cross the floorboards   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   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 little bit of dirt   Tore out a page 'n' stuffed it inside my shirt   Fled outta the window   And shinning it down the vine   Outta her nightmare and back into mine   Mine, oh, mine      From her to eternity   From her to eternity   From her to eternity      Cry, cry, cry...      She's wearing them blue stockings, 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, 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   Shakes, shakes, shakes   Why 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   Ooo, then you know   That little girl would just have to go   Go, go      From her to eternity   From her to eternity