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Sad Sad Girl (in a Cruel Cruel World)

by Andy Revkin

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This is an updated (and final!) version of this song exploring how we feel when we're trying to help someone struggling with durable demons.


Sad Sad Girl (in a Cruel Cruel World)

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Sad Girl © 2024 Andrew Revkin

She walks like the weight of the world is on her shoulders.
Her lovely face it wears the saddest frown.

She stumbles like the road is full of boulders.
If tears flowed any harder she would drown.

If you ask her what hurts, she’ll say what doesn’t?
If you hold out a hand she’ll say go home.

If you offer a shoulder to share that heavy load with her
No, she’ll say, she’ll carry it alone.

Sad, sad girl in a cruel, cruel world.
No light can penetrate those dark sad eyes.
No medicine can heal
The wounds she feels.
In a cruel, cruel world walks a sad, sad girl.
Sad, sad girl.

What did somebody do to forge such sadness?
What kind of seed could bear such bitter fruit?

What kind of world could be so heavy for a girl to carry
That she cannot bear to speak of hope or truth?

Sad sad girl
In a cruel cruel world.
No light can penetrate those dark sad eyes.
No medicine can heal
The wounds she feels.
In a cruel cruel world walks a sad, sad girl.
Sad, sad girl.

Bridge

You pray someday her light will shine again
Some way she’ll reach out for your hand
Somehow her stumbling journey ends.

But you know deep down
she is not yours to save.
Just be there for her every day
Just let her know she has a friend

Sad sad girl
In a cruel cruel world.
No light can penetrate those dark sad eyes.
No medicine can heal
The wounds she feels.
In a cruel cruel world walks a sad, sad girl.
Sad, sad girl.

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released April 25, 2024

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Andy Revkin Lamoine, Maine

Best known for his environmental journalism and books, Andy Revkin has long been a performing songwriter (here seen on the Clearwater; photo by Susan English).

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