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Girl Of Many Secrets

from Wild, Blue & True by Markus Rill

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Girl Of Many Secrets
(Markus Rill/Eva Hillered)

Sitting in the dark I’m all alone
she’s the big-time star of the picture show
she’s up there looking down on me, she don’t see

I knew her mother long ago
she was working for the Hollywood studio
we were young and wild till I let her go, she don’t know

I never held her as a child
but in her eyes I see she’s mine

She’s a girl of many secrets
she don’t want none of them revealed
I’m her daddy in the shadows
she’s the girl who everybody knows

Platinum blonde on the silver screen
they made her a star but she’s still a little girl to me
I know she often thinks of me but we never meet

I never held her as a child
but in her smile I see she’s mine

She’s a girl of many secrets
she don’t want none of them revealed
I’m her daddy in the shadows
she’s the girl who everybody knows

None of her lovers understand
she needs a father more than a man
baseball players, playwrights, presidents, too,
they don’t know like I do

She’s a girl of many secrets
she don’t want none of them revealed
I’m her daddy in the shadows
She’s a girl of many secrets
she don’t want none of them revealed
I’m her daddy in the shadows
she’s a big-time star upon the screen
but to me she’s Norma Jean

credits

from Wild, Blue & True, released March 4, 2011
Markus Rill – vocal, acoustic guitar
Tom Ripphahn – electric guitar, acoustic 12-string, tambourine, organ, backing vocal
Andi Obieglo – piano
Christoph Reiss – bass
Christoph Beck – drums
Robert Oberbeck – backing vocal

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Markus Rill München, Germany

»Songs that are beautifully shimmering with ambiguity - brilliant lyrics« - Rolling Stone"

"Rill shows great depth as a songwriter, bandleader and producer" - No Depression/USA

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