Lyric

Ellie prayed for a memory

Her plaintive cries in a cubby-hole

She said, "There is no heaven"

In her house, there was a devil

She'd already known what made the evil

Before she turned seven

Her mother believed in a paradise

Dismissed her child as a sacrifice

She wished to be forgiven

Ellie, the girl, was nothing special

On her cheeks, lovely freckles

I said, “You're just like heaven"

We fell in love on a Saturday

September's languid mid-summer day

We met four out of seven

Ellie was tormented by memories

No therapies and no remedies

She said, "There is no heaven"

Ellie

If only I could have saved your life

If only I could have stopped your knife

Ellie

Have you found your heaven?

I can't hear your Gloria

But I know, I know where you are

Ellie

If only I could be by your side

This is the world that I can't abide

Ellie

I'm the one who burned down your house

So I think I'll go to hell

We'll never meet again

Our love is never quantified