Ethel's Secret

[Verse]

Ethel walked alone in the evening rain

A cherry red dress hiding her shame

In her pocket she carried a letter

Unsigned and cold

For a child she'd never hold

[Chorus]

Secrets are hidden

Where Secrets are bled

Underneath the words she never said

She carried the truth

She carried the blame

But left no trace

She protected the senator’s name

[Verse 2]

In 1963 the world turned so slow

she was going to a place where girls like her could go

She carried his sin like fragile glass

Praying to Jesus the pain would soon pass

[Prechorus]

But the rain doesn’t wash away

What the heart can’t lose

A choice she made

A life she’d choose

Chorus]

Secrets are hidden

Where Secrets are bled

Underneath the words she never said

She carried the truth

She carried the blame

But left no trace

She protected the senator’s name

[Bridge]

In a quiet town in East Texas where the rumors did fade

A child grows where his truth was laid

Ethel’s cherry red dress hangs on a wire

While her heart burns with unspoken fire

Chorus]

Secrets are hidden

Where secrets are bled

Underneath the words she never said

She carried the truth

She carried the blame

But left no trace

She protected the senator’s name

She protected the senator's name

She was never the same

This is a lyric to a song I wrote. It can be found on Amazon, Spotify and Youtube under Julia O'Hara "Ethel's Secret"