There's a Girl I Know — A confident adult woman bicycles through a radiant Merced neighborhood carrying flowers and a guitar while an adult admirer watches from across the canal

There's a Girl I Know

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Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

There's a woman in black who knows how to find people who don't want finding. In this crooked business, I used to think knowing her made me safer. Then the long road starts narrowing, and every favor has a colder meaning. It's an unsettling moment when the shadow you watched approach somebody else turns toward your own door.

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2 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

There's a Girl I Know

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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THERE'S A GIRL I KNOW

There's A Girl I Know
And she's been lookin’ out for you
She moves like a Shadow
Watchin’ you where you go
She came in to tell me
Don't let anybody know
I got him on a piece of paper
Says he's gotta go

I got no idea what he's done
And it don't even matter
They told me to bring my gun
Get it done sooner than later
I prefer to take my time,
Like darkness on the water
And when it's time, I draw the line
Like leading lambs into the slaughter

I raise my glass and drink a toast
To all that went before me
That they might meet the Lord of Hosts
Before I see Eternity
And if by chance a day shall pass
When I come this way again

And now, listen, my Noble Friend
All our Lives on you depend
There is no kind of Sanctuary
The Ties that Bind are Mercenary
And when, in kind, we can repay
The Sins of our Fathers from Yesterday
All of the Others we Lost on the Way

If you live your Life as an Outlaw
You can never come in from the Cold
You'll live by the Gun, and you'll Die on the Run
And you’ll be Dead before you get Old
Out of the Darkness came One, shining Ray
The Thunder and Lightning and Rain blew away
The Sun coming out at the End of the Day
With only a moment to kneel down and pray

There's A Girl I Know
She wears a Black Lace Veil
A long, Black Dress
Can you hear the 4 Winds wail?
As the Long Road ends
She is Beckoning to you
There's A Girl I Know
And she's coming after you
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