I wanna tell you 'bout a girl You know, she lives in room 29 Why, why? Ah, that's the one right up top o' mine I start to cry, I start to cry Oh, I hear her walkin' Walking barefoot across the floorboards All through this lonesome night I hear her cryin' too Hot tears come splashing down Leaking through the cracks And 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 and cry, walk and cry Walk and cry, walk and cry From her to eternity From her to eternity! From her to eternity! I read her diary on her sheets Scrutinizing every little bit of dirt Tore out a page and stuffed it inside my shirt I fled out of the window And shinning it down the vine Out of her nightmare and back into mine Mine! O mine! From her to eternity! From her to eternity! From her to eternity! Cry! Cry! Cry! But she's wearing those blue stockings, I bet And standing 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 and cry, walk and cry! Kneel and cry, kneel and Cry! From her to eternity! From her to eternity! Oh, tell me why? Oh, tell me why? Why why why? Oh, tell me why, 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 nagging at me like a shrew But I know that to possess her Is, therefore, not to desire her Oh, then that little girl would just have to go, go From her to eternity (Oh, go, go go) From her to eternity From her to eternity From her to eternity (Why) From her to eternity (Why did I cry? Why did I cry?) From her to eternity (the cry, the cry, the cry) From her to eternity (Why did I cry? Why did I cry?) From her to eternity (cry, cry!) From her to eternity (I cry, cry, cry!) From her to eternity (I cry, cry, cry!) From her to eternity (I cry, cry, cry!)