Annie I hope things line up for you

All in a row, shiny and new

You can't keep on living in one small room

Where you never let anyone in, you never let anyone in

Annie you think the whole world's been cruel

All of the stars took advantage of you

Your mother was cold and your daddy'd no love

So you stomped your feet till they noticed

You stomped your feet till they put on their care gloves


Now they're walking on anxious, they're walking on glass

They sing hallelujah each time that you pass

Someday you'll pick yourself up of your ass and go


Annie you think the boys never played fair

Tripping you up, sticking gum in your hair

Wherever you run it's yourself you'll face there

And he might be gone when you need him

And he might be long gone when you find you care


'Cause he's walking on anxious, he's walking on glass

He sings you a lullaby each time you ask

And someday you'll pick yourself up of your ass and go


Annie I love you, but that's always been clear, 

It's the layers of history that won't let us hear

Twisted compassion that's burning our ears

The distance from there to here

The distance from there to here


C'ause I'm walking on anxious, I'm walking on glass

I sing you a lullaby eachtime you ask

And someday you'll pick yourself up of your ass and go

If your gambling again and the seats are  too high

Your anti- sphere and my bed is disire

Took you far from the truth, heat and fire again


Annie I hope things line up for you

All in a row, shiny and new

You can't keep on living in one small room

When you never let anyone in, you never let anyone in

You never let anyone in, you never let anyone in