Peril is a girl She walks alone She walks alone In the alley behind the club Her friends are gone Her friends are gone Darkness brings with it a fright Her shoes are red Her jeans are skin tight And the echoes of her mama sayin' "Honey nothing good happens after midnight." Drifting along the shallows There is a hand who holds the gallows Shifting along he follows There is a man who walks the shadows And he's hoping she'll never learn Within his eyes, the girl she burns And the footsteps are too far behind Peril is a girl She walks alone She walks alone In the alley behind the club Her friends are gone Her friends are gone