Someone's Child
A SPANDEX DRESS AND FISHNET HOSE IN THE POURING RAIN IT WAS BITTER COLD THEY FOUND HER THERE LYING IN THE STREET WHERE SHED BEEN TURNING TRICKS SINCE SEVENTEEN AND NO ONE KNEW HER NAME NO ONE GAVE A SECOND THOUGHT WHEN THEY PUT HER IN A COUNTY GRAVE CHORUS SHE WAS SOMEONES CHILD, A PRECIOUS MIRACLE SHE MADE SOMEONE SMILE, BORN BEAUTIFUL EVEN THOUGH SHE HEARD A DIFFERENT DRUM AND WALKED A DIFFERENT MILE SHE WAS SOMEONES CHILD SHADY SCHEMES AND CROOKED DEALS HE WOULD TELL YOU LIES WITH NERVES OF STEEL ITS JUST WHITE COLLAR CRIME NO ONE GETS HURT HE SAYS IF YOURE THAT DUMB ITS JUST WHAT YOU DESERVE NOW HE CANT STAND THE SMELL OR THE LIGHT THATS ALWAYS ON IN HIS EIGHT BY TEN FOOT CELL CHORUS THEY STRIPPED HIM BARE AND BEAT HIM DOWN AND GIFTED HIM WITH A THORNY CROWN WHO WAS THIS MAN THIS REBELIOUS JEW WHO DIED FOR ME, WHO DIED FOR YOU CHORUS
