Swan Song (feat. Scott Vogel)

To all the ladies working Iowa 80 Selling pussy to the chrome on the interstate Living hard lives, working long nights Hit by every man you ever loved 'til your heart died You're my mother, you're my sister And a daughter tonight For every bruise and excuse You tried but you couldn't hide For all the fear, every tear Slowly burning your sight For every moment in the light I fucking see you tonight, goddamn To see heartbreak from my window Such a sad state I can't stop to even help you What the hell can I do? Say that's just her life Turned out used up and defiled Deep pain starts early in life Every woman still once was a child Who's one story of millions Swan song sung city to city to city Your hurt hit closer to home But what do you see? Graves beneath the family tree of abuse Fucking raped at age four on the floor of the chicken coop I saw her casket fucking covered in flies A botched embalming job still smelled like somebody died, for what? Dead end path Eyes up for all the woman suffering so visibly The runaways enslaved unwillingly Drug addiction, dereliction Dying from trauma induced conditions But you must find your strength I can't walk your life your history To see heartbreak from my window One day this world might hear you Sometimes you gotta let the rough end drag I've learned that I'm worthy And just because I have something I don't have to use it as a tool Meaning my tits, my ass and my pussy That I can come higher with my brain I've learned that a real person You do not have to take shame for anything that you do When you did it for a means to an end And I've learned to not be ashamed of anything that I've done And that my todays and my yesterdays They can be my business, but I can share with the world Don't be ashamed of them Learn something from it And whenever you have to do it You can call it what you want to But still, you gotta survive