( Mark Callaghan) 



A wholesome love is what she finds

Everywhere it plays on her mind

She sees it at the movies up on the screen

Doesn't understand that it's not what it seems

Vicariously living from day to day

She's in the ether and there's no escape

She goes out walking every night

Bathed in the glow of the neon lights



She knows deep down that it's not enough

But she wants what she sees all the same

Nothing she does seems to shake that mood

So she just takes a pill for the pain

She just takes a pill for the pain



A safe little fix is what she gets

Every night from her TV set

Her single bedroom 

is filled with magazines

You know the kind that always 

feature the queen

She knows everything about their lives

Who's doing who and who is who's wife

And one day soon 

all her dreams will come true

Until then she'll just have to make do



She knows deep down that it's not enough

But she wants what she sees all the same

Nothing she does seems to shake that mood

So she just takes a pill for the pain

She just takes a pill for the pain

Just a little bald pill for the pain yeah

A little bald pill for the pain