Only The Lonely Woman
Lonely in the night she wanders / drifting through rain and thunders Folks who notice never care / Singing her heartache
She's just some lonely woman / No one answers her prayers
Once she was beloved / no pauper / She was somebody's daughter Ruin caught her unaware / Now she cries heartache
She's just a lonely woman / hallowed out from despair
Once she loved a man / but his ambition was to run a prison He turned love into slow torture / He was a soul saboteur
Now she suffers all the weather / can't get herself together She's the wreckage of affairs / Men sold and bought her made her a lonely woman / no mercy can repair
No one sees here there / just some mangled concrete's her chair But this corner is her home / This bus stop's her throne
though no heat / no phone / no bed's her own
She waits all alone / He said he would treat her like a lady He called her Baby / Well she's nobody's baby now
He gave her reefer and a ring / furs of fox / silk stocking for her socks & everything He spirited her so far away / everything was foreplay
But when she got dismayed? / Waylaid!
Traded for pay! / Man, that cat had just betrayed her
Son, that pimp purveyed her / Everybody laid her / filleted her That Marquis de Sade he played her / frayed her
slayed her / straight-murdered the girl that was her
Now she suffers all the weather / Can't pull herself together She's a lesson : love's a snare / Staggering heartache made her a lonely woman / so watch your back & foreswear
Prepare / Take care / & beware