Some friends were putting together a compilation work of original material so I wrote this as my effort!
Lyrics
Pretty Dresses
v1
Jenny is sat at the back of the class
She's wearing her second hand clothes
The money for dresses fills Dad's empty glass
She's thankful that nobody knows
And all of the kids just leave Jenny alone
She seems to prefer it that way
And they're not to know what she goes through at home
'Cos nobody asks and Jenny never says
Chorus
And inside her head she's wearing pretty dresses
The boys are always staring for she always looks so fair
And everyone is envious of her, and her successes
So is it any wonder then
That she escapes there time again
To wear those dresses even when
They're fashioned by despair
v2
Now Jenny is older and married herself
Her husband turned into her Dad
She works every hour stacking tins on a shelf
Making money so he won't get mad
She'd hoped that the baby would make things alright
It only made everything worse
'Cos now when he's drinking and picking a fight
It's not only her his drunken fists can hurt
Chorus
