I met a boy on the street the other day He was walkin' all around out in West L.A. He showed me a picture - "Have you seen this girl? She's the dearest thing in the whole wide world It doesn't seem so very long ago We listened to Del Shannon on the stereo I never thought it would be my turn to say 'Has anybody seen my little runaway?' She was too pretty for her own good Said, 'I'm gonna make it out there in Hollywood A man said he would make me a star I'll be comin' back home in a big white car' And people like to say they knew That she'd go wrong, but that's not true Everything they know is just hearsay Has anybody seen my little runaway? My little run run run run runaway She went out there and they used her up They threw her aside like a broken cup Poor baby, she's gone gone gone Walkin' the streets with her eyeshadow on" He said, "Darlin', if you hear my plea Will you please come runnin' back to me? Don't stay out in that cold world alone Do you hear us callin', 'Baby, please come home'?" I left the boy on the the streets that day He was walkin' all around out in West L.A. And if I listen, I can still hear him say "Has anybody seen my little runaway? My little run run run run runaway"