Girl Behind The Mask - Screaming Trees

Well clouds and I see a shape

Pretty girl through the night and day

Run around fast away

I pass the shadows where I stay

Long, long hair and I’m not there

And when the wind dissolves the clouds

The street light girl is the only witness

The girl behind the mask

She’s the one who never has to ask, yeah

With magic pouring from her eyes

There’s nothing she can’t recognise

Makes me want to understand

Makes me feel like melting black

When your the last flash and time stands still

I ask what if all I could recall

Had never been in the dream that she could see

Girl behind the mask

She’s the one who never has to ask

She reaches through your disguise

It’s too late — you never realised

And I never realised

Up the stairs a picture’s waiting

In my room she might be waiting

We’re baptised still getting blind in the darkness

If I get back to her I’d walk away into the forest

And then I’m thinking 'where can I go Lord?'

Girl behind the mask is the one

Who never has to ask

She’s reaching through your disguise

It’s too late

You never realised, you never realised

(Please don’t, please don’t, please don’t)