she told you about it through a broken bleeding windpipe it shook your bones and made your life feel skintight well, sidewalk annie now your coattails have come undone your whisper\'s a scream now since you don\'t speak to anyone the howlin\' winds could never care what she liked rhythm and blues or a stranger in the night it tore up the trailer with the sounds of a howlin\' wolf the cellar was stone, even the garden was bulletproof well, sidewalk annie now your coattails have come undone your whisper\'s a scream now since you don\'t speak to anyone little girl in your white ice skates we\'ve seen your face walkin\' around the old school gates with a hand on your hip and the other one on your head you realized it wasn\'t gone, but lost instead sidewalk annie now your coattails have come undone your whisper\'s a scream now since you don\'t speak to anyone invested a nickel into the banks of a wishing well and blew out the candles and hoped for somethin\' that she could, she could sell sidewalk annie now your coattails have come undone your whisper\'s a scream now since you don\'t speak to anyone
