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Each night she lays quivering, shivering hereAsking why she keeps forgiving him and living in fearAt work she had a glistening, driven careerBut at home with one swing of the fist it disappearsEach night she lays quivering, shivering hereAsking why she keeps forgiving him and living in fearAt work she had a glistening, driven careerBut at home with one swing of the fist it disappearsShe'd often dream of different ways to break from under his noose gripIt's one thing to see a path but it's another to choose itIt's one thing to want to run but it's another to do itIt's one thing to buy a gun but it's another to use itBut buy a gun she did and it made her feel goodShe told herself if she really had to use it she wouldThe next night, drunk, at the end of the bed he stoodShe said she'd take it no more and she prayed he understoodBut he didn't take too kindly to being put in his placeShe fled after the first blow and of course he gave chaseShe sat hunched holding the gun praying she wasn't pursuedBut when the door swung open a ruby red fountain ensuedShe watched in awe as his power cascaded on the floorSongtexteIt wasn't long before police came bursting through the doorIn store, a new prison, enforced by the lawAnd she let out a whisper with the strength of a roarFor 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 deadFor 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 deadEach night she lays quivering, shivering thereI wonder how we came to live in unforgiving despairI find myself given to delivering staresAs the smell of Glenfiditch starts sieving the airEach night she lays quivering, shivering thereI wonder how we came to live in unforgiving despairI find myself given to delivering staresAs the smell of Glenfiditch starts sieving the airAs the bullet flew towards me I swear time stood stillI felt every emotion that a man could feelHow did I get here? How can this even be real?How did I become a person that a loved one could kill?It wasn't always this way I once saw love in those eyesThat now just despise and chastise all my liesMy sarcastic replies, each new drunken guiseAnd worst of all these heavy hands that surmise my demiseThere was a time we never thought the honeymoon would endShe was my wife, my lover, my confidant and my friendBut it seems these days happiness can dependOn financial stability and the need to contendBut I make no excuse, I let it get the wayOther people live their lives on the minimum wageI was the one that couldn't cope and let it turn to rageNow I'm looking down the barrel playing guess the gaugeFor the bad times I cannot be acquitted or let off as the bullet enters my headAnd for the good times I wish for five minutes in heaven before the devil knows I'm deadFor the bad times I cannot be acquitted or let off as the bullet enters my headAnd for the good times I wish for five minutes in heaven before the devil knows I'm deadBefore the devil knows I'm dead Aus Songtexte Mania