th Fret Intro: Two little girls, hand in hand Wait in the winter rain They said their good-byes and they opened their eyes And they stared down a westbound train I read in my paper they were feeling so bad About this and the other thing But all I could think of were the parents back home Waiting on the phone to ring Why do they do the things they do? Why do they do the things they do? Billy said, "Take them, I won't need them anymore" And we laughed at what we thought was a joke He went down Monday morning to the hardware store And they found him at the end of his rope For a long while after I was walking around With a terrible case of the blues I couldn't hear laughter, I could just hear the sound Of my feet in that dead man's shoes Why do they do the things they do? Why do they do the things they do? Instrumental: