T-Bone Burnett - Fatally Beautiful lyrics

She was born in the back of a thirty four Ford

And raised in a foster home

Her guardian made sexual connection with her

Before she was even grown

When she was fifteen she fell in love

With a boy who had a fast car

But she was timid and withdrawn

So she worshipped him from afar

Still he couldn't help but notice her

She was fatally beautiful

Ever since she was a girl

She was fatally beautiful

She ran away to the city the next year

Disowned out of jealousy

And she frightened men with her figure

So they treated here like a sleaze

She lived cross the street from a piss factory

As dark as the sun is bright

The kind where you think you just went blind

When you walk in from the daylight

But they couldn't help but notice her

She was fatally beautiful

Ever since she was a girl

She was fatally beautiful

She was discovered by a man three times her age

Who worked for a studio

And her bought her dresses and perfume

And moved her into his home

He got her a part in a comedy

Where she played a dumb blonde whore

And she posed without clothes for a magazine

And the offers came in by the score

In a restaurant in Brussels she pulls back her hair

Picks up a candle and lights a cigarette

And she's recognised by a tourist

Who can't see her face but knows her silhouette

He imagines her robe as it drops to the floor

He imagines her skin soft to touch

He imagines her naked on silk sheets

The morning she never woke up

Cause we couldn't help but notice her

She was fatally beautiful

Ever since she was a girl

She was fatally beautiful