Your eleventh girl that day,
caught out of the corner of your eye,
a fully stocked bar, a familiar face,
you came in here on the hunt
for the innocent fox

(drink up, shut your eyes
breathe, don't forget to
dream)

a rolled joint, turn the radio up,
shut the windows, lock the door,
you're doing nothing wrong, after all

(lie down, count to ten
you're free to leave, in your mind
imagine so many things, anything
but what's really happening)

cover your tracks, throw out the blood
soaked sheets. tell yourself she asked
for it, tell yourself it's just *****
laundry, just the taint of
another girl

(run, through the pain,
it'll stop stinging soon,
just keep moving, move
get away, get away, let the air
wash off his scent)

purple... green... a two inch scar,
please stop asking me to describe him,
swallow hard, he's not inside you now,
you're free to breathe, it's over,

but in my mind

the pictures still play,
like a movie scene,
a scratch on a track,

he's the other side of this screen,
I can taste him, salt and sweat,
they see what I saw at first
a decent man, not an animal
who devours women as if
they're meat

tell them I'm crazy
tell them I was drunk
get some sick satisfaction
out of lying through your
barely concealed wolf grin

you're free to prowl again