Stephanie Kirkham - That Girl Lyrics

Sitting in a long dark dress with coloured tights

Shuffles his letters by candlelight

Romance, enchantment, emotional bliss

She whispers “forget the fairytale myth?



Under a clear sky branches stacked

Fat cat purrs and tiptoes past

She draws a circle, strikes a match

Paper curling, burning, turning to ash



That girl, you know she's dysfunctional

One step forward and two steps back

That girl, she's uncommunicative

Only talks to her black cat



Caught a glimpse of the future, stood on the brink

She went running to help her think

Thought the faster she ran the more she'd find

Tough luck she always fell behind



He dissected her like one of his engines

Studied the parts but missed the poetry

Threw incense on the fire, it crackles and glows

Read the last note where he calls her his rose



That girl, you know she's dysfunctional

One step forward and two steps back

That girl, she's uncommunicative

On the porch with her black cat



She's breaking inside, unfulfilled, unrealised

Circle on the calender marks the day she died

He wanted to be her connection, he wanted to be her reason, he wanted to be her roots

But you know what – she doesn't need them



That girl, you know she's dysfunctional

One step forward and two steps back

That girl, she's uncommunicative

Still talking to her black cat





That girl, she's unpredictable, oh

That girl, she ran

She ran for the love of running, the love of running

She's dancing round the fire singing

“If love set's you free, then this couldn't have been love

It couldn't have been love, it couldn't have been?

Love sets you free, it set's you free