She sits the kitchen table
Cigarette is burning to her fingertips
He won't be back
She can't hear the baby crying
For her mothers voice inside her head
I told you so
But she don't understand
Why a girl like her should be alone
She needs somebody to love
She needs somebody to hold
She needs somebody to love her
Just like a woman needs to love
She don't want the bitterness
That turned her mothers heart into a stone
And never love again
She don't want no movie star
Just a steady guy (Joe) who holds a 9-5
And comes home to her
But she don't understand
Why a girl like her should be alone
She needs somebody to love
She needs somebody to hold
She needs somebody to love her
Just like a woman needs to love
But how could this love find her and what would this love think
If this love could see her now in the state she's in
She'd read that love was patient, selfless and kind
Was this love really possible to find
But she don't understand
Why a girl like her should be alone
She needs somebody to love
She needs somebody to hold
She needs somebody to love her
Just like a woman needs to love