Swan Song - Kublai Khan TX, Scott Vogel

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

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 4 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 unwilling

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