Elsie Lyrics - The Divinyls

She never had an education 

She uses life as her vocation 

Standing on ledges clinging to the edges 

The world's a hard place to land on 

She has this one way conversation 

Trying to avoid a confrontation 

Memories of the kind she's rather leave behind 

The worlds' a hard place to land on 

Life can be lonely can be very sad 

Can be something you wish you never had 

She never had any affection 

So she relates well to rejection 

No stories wait discovery 

Dreams have passed recovery 

The worlds a hard place to land on 

She just sleeps all day 

In her squalid little slum 

And takes little white pills 

To make her body feel numb 

And it's dark and dirty 

And there's nothing left to eat 

And in her heart there's a feeling of defeat 

Smells of bus and fornication 

And a bottle of cheat scent 

Should she stick around 

If this is all that life meant 

Life can be lonely can be very sad 

Can be something you wish you never had 

Open the door wally, open the door