Swan Song (feat. Scott Vogel)

To all the ladies working Iowa 80
 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, goddamn
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 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 four 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?
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 Dead end path
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 Eyes up for all the woman suffering so visibly
 The runaways enslaved unwillingly
 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
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 Sometimes you gotta let the rough end drag
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 I've learned that I'm worthy
 And just because I have something
 I don't have to use it as a tool
 Meaning my tits, my ass and my pussy
 That I can come higher with my brain
 I've learned that a real person
 You do not have to take shame for anything that you do
 When you did it for a means to an end
 And I've learned to not be ashamed of anything that I've done
 And that my todays and my yesterdays
 They can be my business, but I can share with the world
 Don't be ashamed of them
 Learn something from it
 And whenever you have to do it
 You can call it what you want to
 But still, you gotta survive