Nowhere Girl - The Rentals

We were wandering down by the river, that day

Just me and 'bout five of my friends

We were all getting ready to start the fifth grade

As summer had come to an end

I could see that something washed up on the banks

What it was wasn’t clear to me yet

The closer we came, it was clear to my eyes

This was something we’d never forget

Nowhere Girl, under the clear autumn skies

Breathless and exposed

Nowhere Girl, under the tender moonlight

Naked and alone

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

None of us had ever seen her before

You’d remember such a strange face

Her mouth shut like a confessional door

Like she still had something to say

Nowhere Girl, under the clear autumn skies

Breathless and exposed

Nowhere Girl, under the tender moonlight

Naked and alone

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

(Oh, Nowhere Girl, how did you end up here?)

Her blue eyes froze like a fawn in headlights

Caught in some dangerous game

Then we gathered some leaves from the base of the trees

And made a blanket to cover her frame

Oh, Nowhere Girl, how did you end up here?

The very next day we returned to the place

But the Nowhere Girl was nowhere

Our blanket of leaves had been lost to a breeze

Like confetti thrown in the air

We each had a theory and conspiracy

Of how the Nowhere Girl disappeared

To this day, I can still see her face

Haunting me for thirty-five years

Nowhere Girl, under the clear autumn skies

Breathless and exposed

Nowhere Girl, under the tender moonlight

Naked and alone

We were young, autumn skies

We were young, under moonlight

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh