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Jul 26th 2022!⃝“On the street where you live girls talk about their social lives, they're made of lipstick, plastic and paint, a touch of sable in their eyes…” - A girl lives in an area full of ‘fake’ or ‘plastic’ girls who are obsessed with being socialites and popular, which we later learn is Broadway. They are all ‘wannabes’ and hide their vulnerability under makeup.
“All your life, all your life all you've asked, when's your daddy gonna talk to you? But you were living in another world tryin' to get your message through...” - As a child the girl was ignored, not given enough attention by her father, nobody listened to her hopes and fears. She needed love, advice and guidance that she never got from him and even now as an adult (all your life is emphasised here) she still wants that love and guidance from her father.
“No one heard a single word you said, they should have seen it in your eyes, what was going around your head..?” - It was obvious (or should have been) that the girl was unhappy and needed help and guidance, but nobody listened to her or noticed she needed it, she appears to have been contemplating making a drastic or desperate decision from a young age.
“Ooh, she's a little runaway, daddy's girl learned fast all those things he couldn't say. Ooh, she's a little runaway...” - The girl runs away, she’s young, she has to learn quickly how to survive on the streets, learn things her father could have warned her about if he had listened to her and noticed her pain/need. This also emphasises that the girl was a ‘daddy’s girl’ and adored her father but this was not requited or perhaps he was absent from her life as a child (things he couldn’t say, he wasn’t there to say them).
“A different line every night guaranteed to blow your mind, I see you out on the streets, call me for a wild time. So you sit home alone 'cause there's nothing left that you can do, there’s only pictures hung in the shadows left that will look at you...” - The girl has found drugs (lines of cocaine), it ‘blows her mind’. She’s ‘out on the streets’ as a prostitute and “call me for a wild time” is her calling card in the pay phone box. She sits home alone because she has no friends, nothing to do and her family and friends from her previous life either have disowned her (cannot look her in the eye, so the pictures on the walls are the only people who will look at her.)
“You know she likes the lights at night all the neon Broadway signs, she don't really mind, it's only love she hoped to find...” - She was initially drawn to Broadway with aims of finding fame and being loved and this contrasts with her accepting her life now is vastly different from those hopes. This reminds us that she didn’t feel loved as a child in her old life either. She still loves the Broadway lights even though she failed to find adoration and love as they represent hope and excitement of a life she hoped for.
“Ooh, she's a little runaway, daddy's girl learned fast, now she works the night away...” - Re-emphasises that she is a ‘night worker’ (a prostitute) and she is streetwise.
