Over the fence, he climbs Ready to rob a childhood On one side, she watches He doesn’t know she’s there And even if he did It wouldn’t do any good Your mind was made up Now the world is gone You float through the leaves now Like God turned you to breeze now And if you’re doomed to watch All that’s gone wrong I will sing to you now your very own song Was it one shot? Was it two? And I ask, did you have to? Maybe you wouldn’t go back Had even told yourself that No asylum for you Doctors don’t know the truth You could make it all end If you climbed over the fence And your daughter didn’t know Which way her life would go When she came home from school…. Oh, they ruled you well That’s one thing I’ll tell The family saved face with one word: Accidental And I wish I could go back Before the world all went I’d scream to you what it did Your last “accident” For we never met, but I’ve suffered from you From all that you did by refusing to do Would my mother have loved me? Would she have been close to me If she’d not found you there Your dark eyes, in death staring? Would my mother have cared? Been able to be near me If she’d not found you there By the fence in the clearing? Was it one shot? Was it two? Now I ask, did you have to? Maybe you wouldn’t go back Had even told yourself that No asylum for you Doctors don’t know the truth You could make it all end If you climbed over the fence Now I’ve sung to you Now I’ve asked if you had to And the breeze whistles by As I smile, as I cry And I cry for her who cannot love me And she cries for the world that she never can see