[00:24.732]When I was young I had a friend[00:26.991]Father said she was make-pretend[00:29.501]Joanna was her name and life was innocence[00:34.520]Doctors tried to claw her out[00:37.028]And pills tried to push her down[00:39.790]She was part of me, she came back again[00:44.054]But not before long[00:46.564]When all was said and done[00:48.822]I knew that it was really her and me[00:54.093]The boys in the crowd[00:56.602]They said they’d beat her out[00:59.111]They’d exorcise this little witch in me[01:04.379]By the time that all[01:07.642]The teachers had arrived[01:10.154]It was too late[01:12.910]They bludgeoned her to death[01:15.419]Outside the gate[01:17.678]She slipped away[01:19.184]Into the summer rain[01:22.697]And never was the same[01:29.221]Oh Joanna dear[01:32.733]I thought this song would make you disappear[01:37.751]And banish you somehow[01:40.262]Though as I sing it now[01:42.771]I hear your voice so loud[01:47.784]So there can be no doubt[01:52.803]That somehow you crept out