Good As She Could Be

Well she was a millionaire before she was fourteen But there was an emptiness there That to practically everyone else could be seen She hit up on the drug of love though there was no hole in her arm But there was a hole some place else About as big as daddy's ten thousand acre farm Oh, she was dying for it for all the world to see Ah, she was as good as she could be Well she had a baby at eighteen, never finished high school Her husband beat her for money and sex Till that Cadillac finally ran out of fuel One disaster led to another, down to her and her baby son Born with a silver spoon in her mouth Headed south now cause she was never born to run Oh, she was dying for it for all the world to see Ah, she was as good as she could be Yeah, she was crying for it, some credibility Ah, she was as good as she could be Well her momma died last year And her daddy, he called her back home But when he opened the door he could not recognize This specter of hair and bone, but it was his own baby child Though she looked like an old woman now Well she lived ten lifetimes in five years Anywhere that the law would allow Oh, she was dying for it for all the world to see Ah, she was as good as she could be Yeah, she was crying for it, some credibility Ah, she was as good as she could be Yeah, she was good as she could be Ah, she was good as she could be Songwriter: John Hiatt