Girl With The Weight Of The World In Her Hands lyrics

Artist  : Indigo Girls 
Song : Girl With The Weight Of The World In Her Hands
 
Author: Indigo Girls
Album title: Nomads.Indians.Saints
Girl with the Weight of the World in Her Hands
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(Emily Saliers)
She won't recover from her losses,
She's not chosen this path, but she watches who
it crosses
Maybe move to the right, maybe move to the left
So we can all see her pain she wears like a
banner on her chest
And we all say it's sad, and we think it's a
shame
And she's called to our attention, but we do not
call her name
The girl with the weight of the world in her
hands
We're busy with our happiness, busy with our
plane
I wonder if alone she wants it taken from her
hands
But if things didn't get any harder
She might miss her sacred chance to go a
consecrated martyr
The girl with the weight of the world in her
hands
I wonder which saint that lives inside a bead
Will grant her consolation when she counts upon
her need
It makes us all angry though we feign to care
But who will be the scale to weigh the cross she
has to bear -
The girl with the weight of the world in her
hands
Is the glas half-full or empty, I ask her as I
fill it
She said it doesn't really matter, pretty soon
you're bound to spill it
With the half logic language of the sermon she
delivers
And the way she smiles so knowingly at me gives
me the shivers
I pull the blanket higher when I'm finally safe
at home
And she'll take a hundred with her, but she
always sleeps alone
The girl with the weight of the world in her
hands
Lyrics reprinted WP/FYC by Trip N. Gregory
Reformatted and extracted to a single lyric file
by Doug Henkle