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

Hollowed 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

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 stockings for her socks and everything

He spirited her so far away

Everything was foreplay

But then 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 and foreswear

Prepare

Take care

Beware