Fatally Beautiful (T-Bone Burnett)

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her Before she was even grown When she was fifteen she fell in love With a boy who had a fast car But she was timid and withdrawn So she worshiped him from afar Still he couldn't help but notice her She was fatally beautiful Ever since she was a girl She was fatally beautiful She ran away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 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 Still 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 he bought her dresses and perfume And moved her into his home He got her a part in a comedy Where she played a dumb blond 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 recognized 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 Still I couldn't help but notice her She was fatally beautiful Ever since she was a girl She was fatally beautiful I noticed her She was fatally beautiful Ever since she was a girl She was fatally beautiful