Standing here with a tale to tell   I might as well tell to you   Nothing near Wagnerian   As Terminator Two   It's an old one about a little dirt farm girl   Who wanted to get out for good   She'd do anything to keep that dream   She'd do anything she could      Who was she   To feel so free   With her heart on her sleeve   She just couldn't believe...   There was a price to pay      Her very first chance to escape that year   Came when the circus had come to town   She wound up in bed and quite madly in love   With some rubber nose juggling clown   He promised he'd return for her come next spring   And he swore that he wouldn't forget   Needless to say come the following May   More than her appetite was getting wet   She proceeded unheeded and quite undefeated   To the trailer behind the tents   And her heart began to soar at his trailer door   She was gonna go wherever he went      Who was she   To feel so free   With her heart on her sleeve   She just couldn't believe...   There was a price to pay      He arrived at last at about half past   With a girl under every arm   But all of this in itself could have been innocent as hell   But what began to cause her alarm   Was when he locked the door behind him like she'd always been   She was standing alone in the dirt   And her eyes were so dry that she began to cry   And something began to hurt   She wanted to tear the hair out of her head   Yeah and she wanted to wish that she was dead   But a voice in her just would not let her drop   And her heart began to break but it didn't stop      "Run all you're races   And don't you fear   You and I   Are getting out of here   And we'll survive   That I guarantee   Cause you don't need much   When all you have is me"      She listened to the little voice in her   And then she hit the road   Free at last and with just a tiny scar   And finally on her own   No one knows what became of her   All we know is she got away   And though there really ain't no guarantees down here   I like to think she did okay      Who was she   To feel so free   With her heart on her sleeve   She just wouldn't believe      That there's a price to pay   That there's a price to pay   That there's a price to pay   That there's a price to pay