Neko Case - The Virginian lyrics

When I was young, I knew a girl
Who wouldn't love God as a test
Or gamble with her happiness
And so led astray

So she did turn, her father would say
"You're only a guest of the master"
But passion was her Sunday best
And she fell away

When she grew up, she fell in love
She thought it was all that she wanted
She knew how it felt to be
Haunted and he ran away

Picked herself up and said through her tears
"Don't waste anymore of your time
You'll spend it all standing in line
And they'll turn you away"

Hope in superstition and
Your heart's permission
'Cause you're good enough, good enough
Good enough to make it alone

Then when she died, she didn't ask God
To take her back into his graces
She'd taken on too many shapes
And too many were strange
And as they lay her into the ground
Her spirit's, they all flew all away
The sun shone so bright on that day
You thought it was spring

She fell away, she fell away
She fell away from the side of the lord
And she was free to do what she
Wanted with clouds of her own na na na na