[VERSE 1]

Mary stopped to smell the flowers.
	Mary lost track of hours.

[VERSE 2]

A strange man came up to her.
	He said: "Ooooh, baby won't you come with daddy"

[BRIDGE 1]

[VERSE 3]

Now, Mary didn't know this man at all so....
	She screamed and she cried for help.

[VERSE 4]

Then he grabbed her by the wrist
	and he dragged her away.
She was kickin' and a-screamin'
	and so afraid and......

[BRIDGE 2]

....all the thoughts ran through
	her mind of how she'd
never see her mommy or her
	daddy ever.....
again......
again......
again......
agian......

[VERSE 5]

He thrust his needle into her,
	piercing her soft soul,
injecting her veins with his disease,
	drugging her with the pleasure of self-hatred.

[CHORUS 1]

Innocence gone......
Innocence gone......
Innocence gone......
Innocence gone......
Innocence gone, innocence gone.
Innocence gone, innocence gone.
Innocence gone, innocence gone.
Innocence gone, innocence gone.

[INSTRUMENTAL]

[VERSE 6]

And all the time as her tender little body was being
	crumpled like a wasted page ripped out of a typewriter
in a story written by some demented author
	......she gazed into the sky.

[VERSE 7]

Strangely detached and becoming numbed
	to the horror that was consuming her,
pinned on her back by some bleeting pig, in disbelief
	she gazed into the clear blue sky.

[CHORUS 2]

Innocence gone, innocence gone.
Innocence gone, innocence gone.
Innocence gone, innocence gone.
Innocence gone, innocence gone.

[BRIDGE 3]

The clear blue sky turned red....
The clear blue sky turned red....
....as her soul was pried open.

[VERSE 8]

Now Mary doesn't smell the flowers.
	Mary just cries for hours.
'Cause her soul's been ripped apart,
	the sky will never look the same.....
again......
again......
again......
agian......

[CHORUS 3]

Innocence gone......
Innocence gone......
Innocence gone......
Innocence gone......
Innocence gone, innocence gone.
Innocence gone, innocence gone.
Innocence gone, innocence gone.
Innocence gone, innocence gone.