She left this morning about five o'clock Head out for who-knows-where She left her key hanging in the lock Walked on out in the cold morning air Somebody said she was meeting a man They said she wasn't quite through Somebody told me she was sick again She had a couple things left to do And now the secret she was keeping Is one I will never know You'd think she was only sleeping there Lying in the snow And she never once came home to me She never said "hey wait a minute dad" I was too busy on the road you see I never knew it got so bad She and her mother didn't get along well They couldn't talk at all She met a drummer with dreams to sell Hanging out with her friends at the mall And the secret she was keeping Is one I will never know You'd think she was only sleeping there Lying in the snow And you'd think she was only sleeping there Lying in the snow My little matchgirl How did it all go so bad so fast How did it all go so bad so fast How did it all go so bad so fast How did it all go so bad so fast My girl My little matchgirl My little matchgirl