"Dead Girl Walking"
"I wrote this song to express what it feels like to walk around with advanced breast cancer,
but really, we are all dead girls walking. The tune came to me (on the mandolin) while riding the Hatteras ferry home. Lou brings the 'danger' needed to complete the musical frame for this song," Marcy
DEAD GIRL WALKING
Marcy Brenner & Lou Castro (ascap)
Dead girl walking
On a lonesome road headed to the chair
Dread comes knocking
Racking my brain for one good prayer
Dead girl walking
Dropped down in a basement nightmare
IVs and TVs squawking
Balding heads fight despair
Tragedy happens every day
This fear I carry has many names
Dead girl walking
Please loan me strength I can’t repay
I beg you, keep talking
This shadow never quite goes away
Dead girl walking
That needle stitching my well-laid plans
Uncertainty is stalking
My future’s held in hungry hands
Tragedy happens every day
This fear I carry has many names
I’m still walking, I have survived
I am a woman who’s finally, finally alive
Dead Girl Walking