Fiona

Verse 1

Fiona is nursing another beer in a pub that’s seen better days

Sitting on the promenawd watching strangers drift through her drunken haze

She’s been all over the world, never settling anywhere too long

Telling anyone who will listen how the world has done her wrong

She says the men are arrogant and never give her a chance

And the women look through her like she’s not worth a second glance

So she laughs at people working hard like effort’s nothing but a strain

But everyone can see the truth in all the ways she carries pain

Chorus

Oh Fiona, Fiona, none of us wish you harm

We just hope you find a gentler place to rest your heart

But we all need a little peace from you at the end of the day

Even when you run us down and try to twist our names

We don’t hate you

We just don’t know what to say

Oh Fiona, Fiona, none of us wish you harm

We just hope you find a gentler place to rest your heart

Oh Fiona... Fiona...

Verse 2

Fiona talks about the fame she swears she almost had

How the world always was unfair and the breaks always turned out bad

So she lifts her glass and mutters that she’s better than the rest

But the bitterness she carries lays heavy in her chest

She doesn’t see the way we see the cracks she tries not to show

Or how the amber in her glass reveals more than she’ll ever know

We’ve watched her chase the same old script in every coastal town

Trying to rise above us while she’s only sinking down

Chorus

Oh Fiona, Fiona, none of us wish you harm

We just hope you find a gentler place to rest your heart

But we all need a little peace from you at the end of the day

Even when you run us down and try to twist our names

We don’t hate you

We just don’t know what to say

Oh Fiona, Fiona, none of us wish you harm

We just hope you find a gentler place to rest your heart

Oh Fiona... Fiona...

Verse 3

Then the karaoke fires up and you stagger to the stage

Still living like you’re twenty in a body three times its age

You belt out old Madonna like the year is nineteen eighty six

Hoping someone in the room will feel the magic in that old time mix

But you’re too drunk to notice when they laugh behind their hands

Mistaking applause that is only pity in ways you will never understand

So you wander back to your table looking for a friendly cue

Never realizing the only one left out is you

Bridge

Maybe once you had a dream that never found its start

Maybe once you loved someone who went and broke your heart

But running from yourself won’t make the pain unwind

And every night you lose a little more of what you hoped to find

Chorus

Oh Fiona, Fiona, none of us wish you harm

We just hope you find a gentler place to rest your heart

But we all need a little peace from you at the end of the day

Even when you run us down and try to twist our names

We don’t hate you

We just don’t know what to say

Oh Fiona, Fiona, none of us wish you harm

We just hope you find a gentler place to rest your heart

Oh Fiona... Fiona...