Desperate Living - Beaten lyrics

You tell him what to do and where to go You tell him what to wear… You gotta…as long as you can keep her in her place She gets twenty dollars a week to buy food Well that's gotta feed the baby and it's gotta feed you The only time you show her love is when you're in the bed When she's laying there thinking that she'd rather be dead She only sees .. that you might find She sees the back of your hand as she cries She thinks she knows love, but it's only lies And it'll be like this 'till the day he dies Woke up this morning wondering what she'd done wrong When the last five years of her life had gone She went to the drawer and pull out the knife And said, "No dad, what have you done to your wife?" As he lay there dying, he said under his breathe, "You know I knew I shoulda beat you to d**h." And I told her over and over again She said, "I may have been beat, but I win in the end." She only sees .. that you might find She sees the back of your hand as she cries She thinks she knows love, but it's only lies And it'll be like this 'till the day he dies Whoa Whoa