Fatally Beautiful Lyrics - Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett - Burnett T-bone

She was born in the back of a thirty four Ford 

And raised in a foster home 

Her guardian made sexual connection with her 

Before she was even grown 

When she was fifteen she fell in love 

With a boy who had a fast car 

But she was timid and withdrawn 

So she worshipped him from afar 

Still he couldn't help but notice her 

She was fatally beautiful 

Ever since she was a girl 

She was fatally beautiful 

She ran away to the city the next year 

Disowned out of jealousy 

And she frightened men with her figure 

So they treated here like a sleaze 

She lived cross the street from a piss factory 

As dark as the sun is bright 

The kind where you think you just went blind 

When you walk in from the daylight 

But they couldn't help but notice her 

She was fatally beautiful 

Ever since she was a girl 

She was fatally beautiful 

She was discovered by a man three times her age 

Who worked for a studio 

And her bought her dresses and perfume 

And moved her into his home 

He got her a part in a comedy 

Where she played a dumb blonde whore 

And she posed without clothes for a magazine 

And the offers came in by the score 

In a restaurant in Brussels she pulls back her hair 

Picks up a candle and lights a cigarette 

And she's recognised by a tourist 

Who can't see her face but knows her silhouette 

He imagines her robe as it drops to the floor 

He imagines her skin soft to touch 

He imagines her naked on silk sheets 

The morning she never woke up 

Cause we couldn't help but notice her 

She was fatally beautiful 

Ever since she was a girl 

She was fatally beautiful