Gesundheit

Smashed in the emergency room
 Screaming like a woman giving birth from her womb
 Feeling like he'd fallen to the earth from the moon
 What a turbulent gloom, he got shot in the chest
 Two bullets ripped the flesh, the blood soaked the car, hard
 Old lady snubnose, opposite a aardvark
 He was holding a cold Miller like Bode
 Then two shots to the heart, double Bon Jovi
 Now he's thinking like a record while the nurse applying pressure
 Freaking on a stretcher, definitely gonna die
 He had just pulled a knife on his wife in the night
 Old lady pops up, pow, pow, surprise
 They used to beat their son right in front of their mama
 His name wasn't Chris, left her looking Rihanna
 Three days a week, maybe four if the Pats lost
 Isaac wishing he could move to his dad's spot
 But tonight was different
 Stepdad collapsed backwards, smashed the dishes
 Blood puddles, linoleum in the kitchen
 While the old lady disappeared, efficient
 Like an assassin, in and out, the hit impeccable
 All she left her calling card, it was a stethoscope
 But nobody caught the face on her
 His family screaming like they're at a Drake concert
 So now it's looking like ER
 George Clooney tryna do CPR
 As his blood run like DMC
 He's just reminiscing, had a GMC
 Spent the weekends free
 With Sarah singing CMT
 Before she was his wife, before she feared for her life
 Nancy winked behind the EMT
 Then he flatline died, that's the E-N-D
 Or is it?
 Three weeks previous
 Sarah's crying cause her fetus is dying before he ever had a chance
 Took his last breath, little heart in his chest met death before they ever held hands
 He'd never grow
 Tadpole to the Leviathan
 Live to learn to try and fail the love to feel to try again
 The nurse is Nancy on the night he died
 The elephant in the room let out a mighty sigh
 But Nancy knew the deal though
 As she put the stethoscope to the earlobes
 Sarah said "It was an accident"
 Nancy rolled her eyes, "Lean back, relax again"
 Sarah's heart pound, like her second husband right now
 Nancy frowns, saw that Sarah's head swelled around her hair
 "What happened to your head?"
 Sarah said, "I fell down the stairs"
 But Nancy checked the blood pressure and knew
 That Sarah was a victim of domestic abuse
 Nancy wishes she could teach her man a lesson or two
 So Nancy saw through the lies that she explained
 It was transparent as a dad who had a sex change
 This was kinda like a cry for help
 Her baby just died, she could die herself
 Plus her other son was living in this hell
 He was age twelve, "What's his name?"
 "His name's Isaac," tears dripping from his eyelids
 Sitting in the corner playing Angry Birds
 Forgetting angry words he heard in private
 He didn't sniffle, he just let the tears trickle in silence
 The smile that he wore to school was one of his disguises
 He would soon exit from the cycle of violence
 But that'll have to wait for the encore
 Tonight, tears shed like where you keep the lawnmower
 Three weeks later
 Nurse Nancy in the '09 Sentra scrubs leather gloves and her dentures
 Got a sticker on the back window, NPR turned up like the bat signal
 Thirty years now, working as a nurse
 So she's seen it all from the birth to the hearse
 So she lurked with the pistol in the purse
 Always bring the heat into a cold world, what a reverse
 Too many women battered and beaten and bruised
 Bleeping and bleeding, got the blues cause their husband's attitude is a heathen
 So she took it in her own hands
 Pop pop, bring the grown out of "grown man"
 She kept the heater, that's a nine-millimeter
 She had caught more bodies than a male cheerleader
 Every victim was a child abuser or wife beater
 She would heat 'em up and give 'em all a fever (Say ahhh)
 Tonight her victim had a Miller on his breath
 Played a villain, didn't know the killer on his deck
 He liked to beat his wife in private
 Leave bruises the color of violet in front of her son, Isaac
 Nancy'd seen her at the hospital abused
 She was too afraid to run away, impossible to move
 So Nancy slid up in the room like-
 Stethoscope glinting in the moonlight
 But he hadn't seen it sparkle yet, the middle of the physical argument
 He had the veins popping out the face, Marlboro red
 Her uniform medical, mask masquerade
 Somersault behind the table like a woman half her age
 Then Nancy popped up
 Told him "Stop," what?
 Pop pop, gun sound, then he dropped, what now?
 Sarah screamed out into the June night
 And put her hand to her mouth like gesundheit