Time can make more rubble out of dreams than anything

In a quiet neighborhood where she's living without wings

There's eyes behind the curtains and there's ears below the floor

Cracks inside the ceiling and there's shadows at the door



The boredom stirs a rage inside her soul

A rage that reaches out and takes control

Baby she's a wild thing [x4]



Nine days out alone

Sleep in the dirt

She walks back into town

With blood stains on her shirt

Everyone has questions

But no one wants to know

How far the anger in someone

Can really make them go



Her tangled hair and mud stains on her knees

Bruised ribs and rips on the side of her jeans

Baby she's a wild thing [x4]



Well I used to be a citizen in this town

'Til my teeth turned gray and my hair fell out

All the civil decent people, they don't want to know

But a girl looking for trouble said she'd give me a go



While everybody's sleeping in this town this night

From the crooked clock tower to the borderline

And night star static in the winter breeze

She's lying in the moonlight with her hands between my knees



She says it's all right

Well, it's all right by me

[x2]



Baby she's a wild thing [x4]