Jeff Lang - Between The Lines lyrics

They always prey on women like her They read self-doubt in the way she walks He s**ered her in with a hollow kind word Saying 'I just love the soft way you talk' 'You won't leave!' he'd scream 'How could you?' As they replayed the same bloodless fight Hadn't seemed long 'till the joy had left them And the dark long silence entered their nights They were going for a meal with her sister They'd been fighting before leaving home And he struck her so hard that his palm had blistered Slap make-up couldn't hide the bruises on her bones She left the restaurant table without warning It was not like her to make a fuss Saying "You'll not see me tomorrow morning… I'm taking the next Brisbane bus Yeah, I'm leaving on the next Brisbane bus" There's vultures waiting on nights like these For a woman to leave on her own The car pulled up beside her near a dark grove of trees The clouds were thick and the night wind groaned And my body lay broken, naked and alone The crows pecked out my eyes And the flesh fell off my bones I watched it all between the dirt and the sky And the officers came to drag him out of our home With cuffs around his wrists Our neighbours saw him get led off alone Standing with their hands in fists They all cried out 'How could you?' They know he was looking for me that night Now watching his pleas from out of the TV They disbelieved the tears he cried But I see him squatting in that cold cell Yeah I watch it all between dirt and sky Took a random act to curse him to hell And a stranger done took both our lives Yeah a stranger, he took both our lives That man he took both our lives