A wholesome love is what she finds   Everywhere it plays on her mind   She sees it at the movies up on the screen   Doesn’t understand that it’s not what it seems   Vicariously living from day to day   She’s in the ether and there’s no escape   She goes out walking every night   Bathed in the glow of the neon lights      She knows deep down that it’s not enough   But she wants what she sees all the same   Nothing she does seems to shake that mood   So she just takes a pill for the pain   She just takes a pill for the pain      A safe little fix is what she gets   Every night from her TV set   Her single bedroom   is filled with magazines   You know the kind that always   feature the queen   She knows everything about their lives   Who’s doing who and who is who’s wife   And one day soon   all her dreams will come true   Until then she’ll just have to make do      She knows deep down that it’s not enough   But she wants what she sees all the same   Nothing she does seems to shake that mood   So she just takes a pill for the pain   She just takes a pill for the pain   Just a little bald pill for the pain yeah   A little bald pill for the pain