I've never been nothing but trouble all my life

Just wondering here and there and causeing hardship for my wife

I pulled into town and playing around and got a cheep motel room

And as I lay there drinking a bud and smoking a joint or two

I heard her cry from the room next door and it chilled me to the bone

And the longer I lay there the longer I stay there the crying turned into mones

The whimpers keep me awake all night as my mind seen a vision of what was going on

And the very next day I met the two who had caused my sleepless night

It was'nt a man and woman or even a man and his wife

But a man and his daughter of twelve years old

What I heard couldn't be true

It tore at my soul and throbbed in my head as I didn't know what to do

While driving around the next day I seen her on the side of the road

As I picked her up I asked her what she was going to do

She said run away that she couldn't stay with the things that were going on

I said I knew and if she would stay things would be better soon

As the screems filled my room it didn't take long befor I knew I was goint to fight

I ran to my door and then to his door and then I turned on his light

I grabbed his hair and I felt no fear as I pulled him off of her

And I slit his throat Iike a damb old goat

With my O. J. Simpson knife

And I burried him there in a shallow grave in a ditch on the other side of town

And I knew it wouldn't be long untill the son of a bitch would be found

Now she has a brand new home and parents that treat her wright

And I know she will allways have a happy famile life

And here I sit like a son of a bitch not knowing what to do

Don't want to take a little walk

And couldn't if I wonted to

The judge said life plus twenty years

And thats with out parrole

So here I sit like a pile of shit

Just stinking up the hall

While I know all the time that I made the right call

Just six more months and I'll see my wife

In that private room down the hall

And I'll bet you a little trick

I want mind that at all

JACK DAVID BURGESS