Poor Jackie

Jackie hits the streets

She swears that all she sees

Is the hunger in their eyes

And the desperation in their speech

Jackie hunts the shadows

With a bowie knife at her elbows

She cuts free those horrible drums

That beat like bats under their sternums

She wears their fear around her neck

(I heard it all from shady streets)

(She travels light on angel feet)

(Best watch your back if I were you)

(Her body's warm and that's her cue)

Jackie's still on the loose

As detectives gather clues

So she tattoos a mustache above her lip

Shaves her head, curses God for those hips

That sway when the beat plays

Dead giveaway she ain't no man

And I don't see what everybody

Sees in your sexy body

All I see is a shallow grave

Trapped inside of a pretty face

"Rescue me" is written on your bed

Home is where the bullet lands

As it travels through your head, and I believe

That all I need to set me free

Is for someone someday somewhere to murder me

And I don't see what everybody

Sees in your sexy body

All I see is a shallow grave

Trapped inside of a pretty face

And I walk the same cold streets

Overhear the same heartbeats

And I tune my drum just right

So you can come set it off in the night

And I want to be embraced by you

And see our violent paths collide

I want to crawl in your autumn mouth

And feel the crows pick me apart inside

And everything that they said is true

I'm on a downward spiral towards you

And I'll fight through the positive steps

As I hurl towards my final descent

And I need to get back to you

And lay this heavy head in your lap

'Cause these days nothing makes more sense

Than the dance towards the inevitable end

And I'm wearing virginal white for you

Don't you see?

So please come with your sharpened knives

And murder me

And I'm wearing virginal white for you

Don't you see?

So please come with your sharpened knives

And murder me

'Cause I'm wearing virginal white for you

Don't you see?

And my eyes are more open now

Than they'll ever be

(Why it got to be)

(I heard it all before)

('Cause it don't always end)

(The way it ended before)

(Why it got to be)

(I've heard it all before)

('Cause it don't always end)

(The way it end before)

There ain't no God here

(Why's it got to be)

As far as I can see

(I've heard it all before)

Your God of hope and light never did nothing straight by me

('Cause it don't always end)

There ain't no God here

(Why's it got to be)

As far as I can see

(I've heard it all before)

Your God of hope and light never did nothing straight by me

('Cause it don't always end)

There ain't no God here

(Why's it got to be)

As far as I can see

(I've heard it all before)

Your God of hope and light never did nothing straight by me

('Cause it don't always end)

There ain't no God here

(Why's it got to be)

As far as I can see

(I've heard it all before)

Your God of hope and light never did nothing straight by me

('Cause it don't always end)

There ain't no God here

(Why's it got to be)

As far as I can see

(I've heard it all before)

Your God of hope and light never did nothing straight by me

('Cause it don't always end)

There ain't no God here

(Why's it got to be)

As far as I can see

(I've heard it all before)

Your God of hope and light never did nothing straight by me

('Cause it don't always end)

(Cause it don't always end)

(Cause it don't always end)

(Cause it don't always end)

(Cause it don't always end)

(Cause it don't always end)