Joanna

When I was young I had a friend
 Father said she was make-pretend
 Joanna was her name and life was innocence
 Doctors tried to claw her out
 And pills tried to push her down
 She was part of me, she came back again
 But not before long
 When all was said and done
 I knew that it was really her and me
 The boys in the crowd
 They said they'd beat her out
 They'd exorcise this little witch in me
 By the time that all
 The teachers had arrived
 It was too late
 They bludgeoned her to death
 Outside the gate
 She slipped away
 Into the summer rain
 And never was the same
 Oh Joanna dear
 I thought this song would make you disappear
 And banish you somehow
 But as I sing it now
 I hear your voice so loud
 So there can be no doubt
 That somehow you crept out