Leave Luanne - Ryan Scott Oliver/Lindsay Mendez.mp3

[00:20.88]Luanne's fat lip is drying,
[00:23.00]The bastard's bacon frying,
[00:25.28]The shiner on her eye's gone bust and bleeding.
[00:29.88]He shouts, "Girl, set the table!"
[00:32.20]But he knows she ain't able.
[00:34.92]Her arm's done broke,
[00:36.08]Hung limp like yolk,
[00:37.52]And softly she's repeating...
[00:40.98]"Leave, Luanne.
[00:42.01]Why don't you march out that door?
[00:45.00]Southern woman, he ain't no good to you.
[00:49.88]Leave, Luanne.
[00:51.50]Louisiana wants war,
[00:54.46]But it's you dying on her ruby plains."
[00:58.53]And yet, loyal Luanne remains.
[01:09.51]Ever since he got him laid off,
[01:11.73]His sanity's just made off.
[01:13.91]No, he was never nice, but now he's cruel.
[01:18.52]He rapes her, and he beats her,
[01:20.79]She don't 'fess how he treats her,
[01:22.77]'Cause a Bible verse
[01:24.29]Says it won't get worse,
[01:26.19]And she won't be a fool.
[01:29.04]"You won't never leave, Luanne,
[01:33.31]'Cause if you walk out that door
[01:36.51]His truck will be gunning for you.
[01:40.37]No, you won't leave, Luanne,
[01:43.00]Or he'll give you 'What for?'
[01:44.34]You got heart where you should have had brains."
[01:49.48]And so, loyal Luanne remains.
[01:56.72]Someone's howling,
[01:59.94]Screams like sighing with battered breath
[02:06.09]Grating, growling,
[02:10.02]Never dying
[02:12.24]In a fate worse than death.
[02:26.36]But months of such conditions
[02:28.75]Turn laymen to logicians
[02:31.36]And tonight the bastard's sleeping like a log.
[02:35.24]So she plucks the kitchen cleaver,
[02:39.76]Creeps up toward his roped-up lab retriever,
[02:44.03]And she cuts the rope,
[02:46.24]And hope on hope,
[02:47.67]She starts to shout
[02:48.86]"Your dog's got out!"
[02:50.13]She's got her chance.
[02:51.23]With no back glance
[02:52.78]She runs out to the bog,
[02:57.43]Screaming, screaming:
[03:00.15]"Leave, Luanne!"
[03:09.53]"Leave, Luanne.
[03:11.22]You've got a life left to live
[03:13.37]In a house hanging off the Golden Coast!
[03:18.30]Leave, Luanne.
[03:20.68]You won't forget nor forgive, "
[03:23.55]And she don't feel the stings, the rips, and scrapes
[03:27.67]As finally Luanne escapes.
[03:46.09]Swim, Luanne! Swim, Luanne!
[03:55.76]And in the swamp of beeches,
[03:58.19]Oh, as the preacher preaches,
[04:00.24]As the light
[04:02.74]In the night
[04:05.33]Holds through the marsh and brushes
[04:07.77]As the blood inside you rushes
[04:09.82]Left and right,
[04:12.11]Hold on tight——
[04:14.60]Until you reach the bank
[04:17.03]And you crawl onto the bank,
[04:20.14]'Til you feel a little yank on your hair
[04:25.52]And, stricken, stare at the bastard
[04:31.77]Who beat you there.
[04:46.53]The bastard lies in bed now,
[04:50.20]Half-sad his wife is dead now.
[04:54.49]She drowned herself in a swamp in wild despair.
[04:59.45]He thinks he used to love her,
[05:01.97]But push it came to shove her,
[05:04.21]A wife disposed,
[05:05.75]A wife case closed,
[05:07.36]And no one seems to care,
[05:10.34]To grieve Luanne.
[05:20.18]Now no one's on his shoulder,
[05:22.89]But his mattress don't feel colder,
[05:26.85]And in fact, it's hellish hot, and the air is dank and steaming.
[05:32.24]Yet his body starts to shiver
[05:34.90]When the window cracks a sliver
[05:37.16]And a fiery fog
[05:38.60]From the miry bog
[05:39.91]Pours in the room
[05:41.07]In a sticky gloom
[05:42.27]And there the man
[05:43.56]Sees dead Luanne.
[05:44.98]He's terrified,
[05:46.19]But he keeps his pride,
[05:47.72]'Cause he knows that he ain't dreaming.
[05:52.16]And he starts screaming,
[05:55.36]"Leave, Luanne.
[05:57.95]Hell sent you back here for more,
[06:01.62]'Cause ain't no one ever loved you.
[06:08.94]But said Luanne,
[06:11.42]"I've come to settle a score, "
[06:15.31]And she shows him her feet are bound in chains.
[06:22.50]And loyal Luanne remains
[06:28.52]And remains
[06:29.40]And remains
[06:30.49]And remains!
[06:32.79]Someone's howling,
[06:36.31]Screams like sighing
[06:38.39]With battered breath.
[06:42.03]Grating, growling,
[06:45.20]Never dying
[06:47.43]In a fate worse than death.
[06:54.18]Luanne,
[06:55.09]She cries her miserable wail
[06:58.02]So the bastards will never sleep again!
[07:02.17]No, no reprieve, Luanne,
[07:04.01]She brings their souls down to hell,
[07:07.37]A caution to the cruelest of men:
[07:11.66]God loves Luanne!
[07:14.26]Praised be!
[07:15.26]Amen!