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Leave Clarissa
(t/w domestic abuse, suicide)

{CHAR} (yes, it be me, ya demigirl)

Clarissa's fat lip is drying
The bastard's bacon frying
The shiner 'round her eye's gone bust and bleeding
He shouts

{EDDIE}

"Girl, set the table!"

{CHAR}

But he knows she ain't able
Her arm's done broke
Hung limp like yolk
And softly she's repeating;

{CLARISSA}

"Leave Clarissa
Why don't you march out that door?
Southern woman, he ain't no good to you
Leave Clarissa
Virginia wants war, but it's you dying here in her fields"

{CHAR}

And yet loyal Clarissa remains
Ever since he got him laid off
His sanity just made off
No, he was never nice but now he's cruel
He rapes her and he beats her
She don't 'fess how he treats her
Cause a bible verse said it won't get worse and she won't be a fool
You won't ever leave Clarissa
Cause if you walk out that door his truck will be gunning for you
No you won't ever leave Clarissa
Or he'll give you what for
You got heart where you should've had brains
And so loyal Clarissa remains
Someone's howling
Screams like sighing with battered breath
Grating
Growling
Never dying
In a fate worse than death
But months of such conditions
Turn laymen to logicians
And tonight the bastard's sleeping like a log
So she plucks the kitchen cleaver
Creeps towards his roped lab retriever
And she cuts the rope
And hope on hope
She starts to shout

{CLARISSA}

"Your dogs got out!"

{CHAR}

She's got her chance
With no back glance
She runs out to the bog
Screaming, screaming

{CHAR/CLARISSA}

"Leave Clarissa
Leave Clarissa
You've got a life left to live
In a house hanging off the golden coast
Leave Clarissa
You won't forget nor forgive"

{CHAR}

And she don't feel the stings and rips and scrapes
As finally Clarissa escapes

Swim Clarissa
Swim Clarissa
And in the swamp with leeches
As the preacher preaches
There's a light in the night
Push through the marsh and brushes as the blood inside you rushes
Left and right
All your might
Until you reach the bank
And you crawl onto the bank
Till you feel a little yank on your hair
And stricken stare at the bastard
Who beat you there

The bastard lies in bed now
Half sad his wife is dead now
She drowned herself in the swamp in wild despair
He thinks he used to love her
But push it came to shove her
A wife disposed
A life case closed
And no one seems to care to grieve Clarissa
Now no one's on his shoulder
But his mattress don't feel colder
In fact it's hellish hot
And the air is dark and steaming
Yet his body starts to shiver
When the window cracks a sliver
And fiery fog from the miry bog, pour in the room, in a sticky gloom
And there the man sees dead Clarissa
He's terrified but he keeps his pride
Cause he knows he ain't dreaming
And he starts screaming

{CHAR/EDDIE}

"Leave Clarissa
Hell sent you back here for more
Cause ain't no one ever loved you"

{CHAR}

But said Clarissa

{CHAR/CLARISSA}

"I've come to settle a score"

{CHAR}

And she shows him her feet which are bound in chains
And loyal Clarissa
Remains, and remains, and remains, and remains
Someone's howling
Screams like sighing with battered breath
Grating
Growling
Never dying
In a fate worse than death
Clarissa
She cries her miserable wail
So the bastards will never sleep again
Reprieve Clarissa
She brings their souls down to hell
A caution to the cruelest of men
God loves Clarissa
Praise be
Amen