She's Young

she borrowed her smile from the parkway her sense of self from the stage and claims to be in rebellion against a charmless age she jacked her mother’s van and then vanished and drove up to Maine on her own forked about three thousand in bad checks before returning home we must not hold this against her she’s young she’ll work it out in her own way she’s young I heard her new boyfriend is thirty and did time for possessing cocaine but she made this sweetheart a scrapbook and brings him to church, all the same we must not hold this against her she’s young her old man all but lives at the bars she’s young her friends dyed her hair neon-purple and cut it up to her chin she took one look and was bawling so they dyed it back to dark brown again we must not hold this against her she’s young