Sitting here
Alone
Thinking about Brooklyn
Remembering how I used to sit there
Alone
Thinking about being here
But it’s all gone now
You only get one chance to be new 
That once is gone for me
Being happiest there
Maybe without you
Maybe in the next room
But away from here
The rain still fell in Brooklyn
But it smelled sweet and sour

There's a girl in N’awlins
Drink melting in her hand
Make-up tattooed on her eyes
Waiting for her man

There’s a bar in N’awlins
Drinks spilling out to the street
Masks glued to cloudy eyes
Hands groping through heat

Jazz blows against her legs
Green and blue and red to meet
Prize legend overhead
Broken bottles beneath her feet

I saw you that day
pressed up against my father’s car.
The sky flashing above us.

Could see her makeup on your cheeks.
Your fingers pinching skin.
Her heels sinking into the mud.

Your hands disappeared under her skirt.
I could hear your ring
banging against the car door.

Her head fell back and I saw your eyes.
They were a stranger’s.
I could feel the love freeze beneath my skin.

The sky flashed above us.
My fingers tightened
around the cool metal of your gun.

I was digging you, heard you had some class.
You handed me a ****** crushed up in a glass.

Soaking up all your words, you wanna take me home,
Up to your apartment, how could I have known?

Giving me those eyes, whispers in my ear.
Felt your hands ‘round my neck when you pulled me near.

I wanted to leave, my mind already gone.
But you grabbed my wrist when I reached for the phone.

Falling back on your bed, got no one to blame.
You ripped the cord from the wall told me I was insane.

My eyes were closing, your face a blurry mess.
I barely remember you tearing off my dress.

I woke in the morning, hoping someone else was there,
Then I felt your sweaty face nuzzled in my hair.

I got up to leave, you begged me to stay
You said without me, you'd surely die that day.

I let you beg, said you’d never let me fall,
As I ran from the room you threw a bottle at the wall.

Blonde and skanky
Red and cranky

No sleep
No need
No guilt
To feed

She sticks
She licks
She’s got
Her kicks

****** city
Kind of pretty

My girl
My girl
Rock and whirl
She is
She is
Hard to miss