Why She Weeps

Just this one time
Only this once, she'll say
Course, she don't know
They all start out that way
Driven to desperate measures
by a painfully throbbing hunger
She jumps in with both feet
And the current sucks her under
To a place where innocence drowns
She'll never see herself again
Cause even if she makes it out
She's not herself by the end
Baby Girl is a trembling stranger
Lost in a sea of fools
Corrupted by cowardice and anger
She's done things to herself
That have made her soul sick
Another day, another John
Another sad faced trick
Pushed into and pushed around
She wills the churning to cease
She's hiding from her past
And lying to the police
She's exhausted.
Shaking and crying
Bile rising even as her tears
Are drying
Too tired to even attempt
To allow herself to sleep
Damn, these rivers run
So deep
It ain't hard out here for a pimp
But it's a war for a lost girl
Washed up on the shores of urban battle
And forgotten by the world.