Sorry Excuse - One Drop

I’m lying in bed

With my tenny-shoes on

So I can run for help

Cause tonight it’s going down

He’s been drinking all day

And claims he can’t find any work

Like a time bomb set by the liquor

Somebody’s bound to get hurt

It starts off with name calls and cursing

He breaks her down with low self-esteem

Once the bottles empty things start to worsen

From the bedroom I can hear them both scream

Accusations about one cheating on the other

A sorry excuse for a man

Through the crack of the door I can see him

Smack her with the back of his hands

I hop out the back window

And I’m running just as fast as I can

To the payphone at the liquor store

So I can call the police man

Operator, operator an emergency

Send me an ambulance

Cause my mom is getting beaten as I’m speaking

And I don’t know how much time she has

I run back to an eerie cold silence

As I walk through the door

I take a step sadly notice

Momma lying on the kitchen floor

Face first still breathing badly beaten

As the blood drips straight from her chin

When I was running for some help he beat her with a dumbbell

The kind that you find at the gym

I wrap a towel around her head

And I hold her close in my lap

All around us is broken glass

And the sofa’s lying on its back

He returns as the cops show up

And they take his sorry ass to jail

She recovers with her stitches and forgives him

And she even helps post his bail

You’d think she would learn a little lesson

And decide that its time to move on

But when its time for subpoena she pretends that

There’s no body home

He say’s he’s sorry for the trouble

The abuse in the past is all done

But I pay no attention cause he’s drinking

And I go to bed with my shoes on