it must have broke your poor little heart when the boys used to say you looked better in the dark oh but now they d give all they learned in school to be somewhere in the dark with you oh yes they would you know the teacher would ask a question and you would always raise your hand oh but somehow you never got your turn my eyes would fill with water inside i d burn oh yes they did homely girl you used to be lonely you re a beautiful woman oh yeah homely girl homely girl you used to be lonely you re a beautiful woman there was a boy who used to sit beside you who d like to hold that place his whole life through oh you were beautiful to me you had a heart no one could ever see oh yes you did i was the only one who offered to carry your books took all the stares and laughter with the dirty looks but i saw then what they see now they don t know how they don t know how homely girl she was so lonely you re a beautiful woman oh yeah homely girl homely girl used to be lonely you re a beautiful woman oh first they want a chance to hold you then they want a chance to try to control you oh no now don t you know i gotta say it oh first they want a chance to hold you then they want a chance to try to control you but don t you know i gotta say it oh no yeah oh first they want a chance to hold you then they want a chance to try