Beautiful From A Distance Lyrics

Beautiful From A Distance

I've had crushes, I've held grudges, sometimes they had the same subject

They're so easy on the eyes and hard on the heart

This Cassandra, she was one who prophesied a fiery doom

I should have seen it, I should have seen it all along

She was born on Halloween, Orange, black and green

She's a little off is what I mean, as if in a dream

And she's so beautiful from a distance

Came out of the hills and hollows, Songs to sing and pills to swallow

They're so easy to come by and hard to come off

Gilded Lilly they like to call her, West Virginia, mountain mama

But there's no mountain to go home to anymore

Wont say what she means, never as it seems

Just a little off is what I mean, as if in a dream

And it's so beautiful from a distance

Something in her eyes, welling up inside

Somewhere between laughing and crying, living and dying

And it's so beautiful from a distance

She knows love and she knows murder, she will bring you one or the other

Should have seen it, I should have seen it all along