leave clarissa
{CHAR}
Clarissa's fat lip is drying
the bastard's bacon fryin'
the shiner 'round her eyes gone bust and bleeding
he shouts
{CHAR/EDDIE}
"girl, set the table!"
{CHAR}
but he knows she ain't able
her arms done broke
hung limp like yoke
and softly she's repeating
{CHAR/CLARISSA}
"leave Clarissa
why don't you march out that door?
southern women, he ain't no good to you
leave Clarissa
Virginia wants war
but its you dying in her fields"
{CHAR}
and yet loyal Clarissa remains
ever since he got him laid off
his sanity just made off
no, he was never nice, but now he's cruel
he rapes her and he beats her
she don't 'fess how he treats her
cause a bible verse says it won't get worse
and she won't be a fool
no, you won't ever leave Clarissa
cause if you walk out that door
his truck will be gunning for you
no, you won't leave Clarissa
or he'll give you what for
you got heart where you should have had brains
and so loyal Clarissa remains
someones howling
screams like sighing with battered breath
grating, growling
never dying
in a fate worse than death
but years of such conditions
turn laymen to logicians
and tonight the bastards sleeping like a log
so she plucks the kitchen cleaver
creeps towards his roped up lab retriever
and she cuts the rope
and hope on hope
she starts to shout
{CHAR/CLARISSA}
"you're dogs got out!"
{CHAR}
she's got her chance
with no back glance she runs out to the bog
screaming, screaming
{CHAR/CLARISSA}
"leave Clarissa!"
{CHAR}
leave Clarissa
you've got a life left to live
in a house hanging off the golden coast
leave Clarissa
you won't forget nor forgive
and she don't feel the stings and rips and scrapes
as finally Clarissa escapes
swim Clari
swim Clari
and in the swamp with leeches
as the preacher preaches
as a light in the night
push through the marsh and brushes
as the blood inside you rushes
left and right
all your might
until you reach the bank
and you crawl onto the bank
and you feel a little yank on your hair
and stricken stare at the bastard
who beat you there
the bastard lies in bed now
half sad his wife is dead now
she drowned herself in the swamp in wild despair
he thinks he uses to love her
but push it came to shove her
a wife disposed, a life case closed
and no one seems to cares to grieve Clarissa
now no one's on his shoulder
but his matress don't feel colder
in fact it's hellish hot and the air is dank and steaming
yet his body stars to shiver
when the window cracks a sliver
and a fiery fog from the miery bog pours in the room in a sticky gloom
and there the man sees dead Clarissa
he's terrified but hee keeps his pride
because he knows that he ain't dreaming
and he starts screaming
{CHAR/EDDIE}
"leave Clarissa
hell sent ya' back here for more
'cause ain't no one ever loved you"
{CHAR}
but said Clarissa
{CHAR/CLARISSA}
"I've come to settle a score"
{CHAR}
and she shows him her feet are bound in chains
and loyal Clarissa
remains and remains and remains and remains
someones howling
screams like sighing with battered breath
grating, growling
never dying
in a fate worse than death
Clarissa
she cries her miserable wail
so the bastards will never sleep again
no, no
reprieve Clarissa
she brings their souls down to hell
a cautoin to the cruelest of me
{BEE}
(a caution to the cruelest of)
{CHAR}
god loves Clari
Praise be
amen