Sorry Excuse

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