Don Moen - For Annie

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no one ever noticed annie weeping .
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people all around , but she was all alone .
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mama’s got her meetings and Daddy’s got his job ,
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but no one’s got the time so annie’s on her own .

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no one ever knew her desperation .
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people couldn’t hear her cry out silently .
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locked inside the bathroom she grabs a jar of pills .
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the medicine that cures becomes the poison that kills .

1st chorus
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and it’s too late for annie . she’s gone away for good .
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there’s so much we could tell her and now we wish we could .
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but it’s too late , it’s too late for annie .

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sadness fills the hearts of annie’s family .
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Daddy tries to comfort mama uselessly .
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they hoped she knew they loved her , but they really didn’t know .
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they just want to know why did their baby go .

2nd chorus
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and it’s too late for annie . she’s gone away for good .
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there’s so much that we could tell her , and now we wish we could .
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we would tell her jesus loves her , tell her jesus cares .
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tell her he can free her and her burdens bear .
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but it’s too late , it’s too late for annie .

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if only we’d have known her situation ,
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we’d have tried to stop this useless tragedy .
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annie’s lost forever , never to be found .
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but there are lots of others like her all around .

3rd chorus
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and it’s not too late for annie . she could be next to you .
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don’t miss the chance to tell her before her life is through .
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we gotta tell her jesus loves her , tell her jesus cares .
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tell her he can free her and her burdens bear .
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tell her jesus loves her , tell her jesus cares .
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tell her he can free her and her burdens bear .
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you’ve got to tell her jesus loves her , tell her jesus cares .
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tell her he can free her and her burdens bear .
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it’s not , too late