She
(Inspired By Glenn Hughes' cover of Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed")
She’d cooked and cleaned and gave her all for him
and their three kids. She’d even worked part-time
outside their home, but life remained still grim,
and never will she live to see her prime.
She had escaped his beatings when she’d fled
and took her children with her far away
because she’d realized she’d end up dead
if she had any longer tried to stay,
enduring constant yelling and abuse.
She’s living with an old friend, trying to
keep hidden, yet she’s still had to produce
the documents to start her life anew.
Her spouse, with gun in hand, appears inside
the friend’s house . . . she succumbs to homicide.
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