Jennifer Clay

When her shadow first fell on the steps of the institution It never occurred to her that she may never leave They led her to a room at the end of a hallway They gave her some pills that she tried to hide in her sleeve Jennifer Clay She won't be going home today Jennifer Clay...Jennifer Clay They wouldn't let her mingle with the others She watched them through the window of her door Angry and confused She started runnin' 'round She circled fifty times then fell to the ground Jennifer Clay She won't be leaving her room today Jennifer Clay... Jennifer Clay Caught up in the ether between... (Her mind wanders through the skylight, an image on a screen...) Reality and her dreams... (A picture in a book that mesmerizes like a dream...) Remembering pictures of places far from here... (The workers they go home at night and leave her world behind...) She makes the walls disappear. (She catches just a glimpse of freedom only in her mind.) Jennifer Clay She won't be getting outta bed today Jennifer Clay She won't be leaving her room today Jennifer Clay She won't be going home today Jennifer Clay... she's here to stay Out through the door in her mind and her thoughts, with a whisper... she's gone.