There was a girl,
Her name’s Maureen
She flew to a vacant sky
She lived a life,
That was obscene,
Watch and wave as she flies by

When she was young,
She fell in love
And she flew to a vacant sky
They played darts,
In the pub
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She loved him more,
And more each day
She flew to a vacant sky
He carried her torn heart away
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Maureen said she’d never leave,
And she flew to a vacant sky
In this love, she would succeed,
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He was sent down for a crime,
And she flew to a vacant sky
When he disowned her,
She did cry
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Second hand goods,
To the men
She flew to a vacant sky
She would never love again
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She went out to the pub,
And she flew to a vacant sky
Where she gave a man a warming look
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Her sisters thought she couldn’t love,
And she flew to a vacant sky
A “filthy slag” her, they did call
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Harassed on the street,
And she flew to a vacant sky
By every “shit bag,” she did meet
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That’s where she met a bearded man,
And she flew to a vacant sky,
Second hand? He seemed to not mind
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He took her to the back of a pub,
And she flew to a vacant sky
And slapped her hard, before they made love
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Two kids later, they’re still together,
But she flew to a vacant sky,
Her heart still wanders like a sailor,
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He calls her every “whore,” and “slag,”
And she flew to a vacant sky,
‘Cause before him she was with another man
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He says: “Maureen, you’re a whore,”
And away, she flew to a vacant sky
Maureen says: “Tell me, what I’ve not heard before,”
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With anger, he raised his fist,
And she flew to a vacant sky
And with fear, she collapsed,
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She went to the safety of her mother,
She flew to a vacant sky,
Her mother couldn’t didn’t help her,
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Drunk, in came stumbling was her father,
She flew to a vacant sky,
He ripped the blanket right off her,
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He said: “Maureen, he don’t love you,”
And she flew to a vacant sky
“How could he, when you’re a fat cunt?”
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With her baby in her arms,
She flew to a vacant sky
In the rain, she walked back to her house
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Some time later, ill was her father
And she flew to a vacant sky
Every day, she came to see him
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Overworked, and under pressure,
She flew to a vacant sky
How she longed for someone to hold her
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One day, out of the blue, to her he talked
And she flew to a vacant sky
The only one, from whom she couldn’t part
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The man who loved her first,
She flew to a vacant sky
His love, to her, had been a curse
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She said: “It fucking hurt, when you left,”
And she flew to a vacant sky
“My heart’s love, you did theft,”
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Desperate Maureen was a mother,
She flew to a vacant sky,
And she truly loves her children
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But one thing, she had been longing
She flew to a vacant sky,
Was for someone to say they love her
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Her father gone and died,
She flew to a vacant sky
He let her break down and cry
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At her father’s wake, a confrontation,
She flew to a vacant sky
Left our Maureen very shaken
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She came out here stronger,
She is in a vacant sky
Before a lover, she is a mother