Sam John - Five Minutes lyrics

[Verse 1] Each night she lays quivering, shivering here Asking why she keeps forgiving him and living in fear At work she had a glistening, driven career But at home with one swing of the fist it disappears Each night she lays quivering, shivering here Asking why she keeps forgiving him and living in fear At work she had a glistening, driven career But at home with one swing of the fist it disappears She'd often dream of different ways to break from under his noose grip It's one thing to see a path but it's another to choose it It's one thing to want to run but it's another to do it It's one thing to buy a gun but it's another to use it But buy a gun she did and it made her feel good She told herself if she really had to use it she would The next night, drunk, at the end of the bed he stood She said she'd take it no more and she prayed he understood But he didn't take too kindly to being put in his place She fled after the first blow and of course he gave chase She sat hunched holding the gun praying she wasn't pursued But when the door swung open a ruby red fountain ensued She watched in awe as his power cascaded on the floor It wasn't long before police came bursting through the door In store, a new prison, enforced by the law And she let out a whisper with the strength of a roar [Hook] For the bad times I wish you'd just admit it and never cast a shadow across my bed And for the bad times I wish you five minutes in heaven before the devil knows you're dead For the bad times I wish you'd just admit it and never cast a shadow across my bed And for the bad times I wish you five minutes in heaven before the devil knows you're dead [Verse 2] Each night she lays quivering, shivering there I wonder how we came to live in unforgiving despair I find myself given to delivering stares As the smell of Glenfiditch starts sieving the air Each night she lays quivering, shivering there I wonder how we came to live in unforgiving despair I find myself given to delivering stares As the smell of Glenfiditch starts sieving the air As the bullet flew towards me I swear time stood still I felt every emotion that a man could feel How did I get here? How can this even be real? How did I become a person that a loved one could k**? It wasn't always this way I once saw love in those eyes That now just despise and chastise all my lies My sarcastic replies, each new drunken guise And worst of all these heavy hands that surmise my demise There was a time we never thought the honeymoon would end She was my wife, my lover, my confidant and my friend But it seems these days happiness can depend On financial stability and the need to contend But I make no excuse, I let it get the way Other people live their lives on the minimum wage I was the one that couldn't cope and let it turn to rage Now I'm looking down the barrel playing guess the gauge [Hook 2] For the bad times I cannot be acquitted or let off as the bullet enters my head And for the good times I wish for five minutes in heaven before the devil knows I'm dead For the bad times I cannot be acquitted or let off as the bullet enters my head And for the good times I wish for five minutes in heaven before the devil knows I'm dead [Outro] Before the devil knows I'm dead