If she wants to dance and drink all night
Well, there's no one that can stop her
She's going till the house lights
come up or her stomach spills onto the floor
when we're damn well ready for it to be over
now the music is playing on our time
Yeah, we do what we do to get by,
and then we need a release
Bah bah bah, bah bah bah-bah-bah bah
Bah bah bah, bah bah bah-bah-bah bah
Bah bah bah, bah bah bah-bah-bah bah
Bah bah bah, bah bah bah-bah-bah bah
You get mixed up with the wrong guys
You get messed up on the wrong drugs
Sometimes the party takes you places
that you didn't really plan on going
When people see the track marks on her arm,
she knows what they're thinking
She keeps on working for that minimum
As if a high school education
gave you any other options, you know
They don't know nothing about redemption
They don't know nothing about recovery
Some people just aren't the type
No mother ever dreams that her daughter's
gonna grow up to be a junkie
No mother ever dreams that her daughter's
gonna grow up to sleep alone
No mother ever dreams that her daughter's
gonna grow up to be a junkie
No mother ever dreams that her daughter's
gonna grow up to sleep alone
She's out of step with the style
She don't know where the action's happening
You know the downtown club scene
ain't nothing like it used to be
You reach a point where there's not
That you could use to make the boys
believe you're still in your twenties
But they keep getting younger,
She's not waiting for someone
to come over and ask for the privilege
She can still hear that rebel yell
just as loud as it was in 1983, you know
There ain't no Johnny coming home
to share a bed with her, and she doesn't...
No mother ever dreams that her daughter's
gonna grow up to be a junkie
No mother ever dreams that her daughter's
gonna grow up to sleep alone
No mother ever dreams that her daughter's
gonna grow up to be a junkie
No mother ever dreams that her daughter's
gonna grow up to sleep alone
No mother ever dreams that her daughter's
gonna grow up to be a junkie
And if she had to live it all over again,
you know she wouldn't change
