Spinning out of control
like an animal glaring teeth
pounding fists stop the pound of her heartbeat
The deadly rhythm
no cry for help could ever stop him
it happens every [bad word] day
this happens every [bad word] day
I can't believe
the air we breathe
gives oxygen to him
Watching skin and [bad word] crashing down onto the knife
I know that I don't ever wanna know how it feels to take a life

[while back, a teenage girl was murdered by her boyfriend in Ann
Arbor where Matt and I live. That sort of thing never happens here,
and it reminded me that this kind of thing happens every minute of
every day. It's something nobody wants to think about, but it's
something everyone needs to think about.]