Lay awake I am this night
I'm frozen cannot move,
Though 'tis mid-Jan and swamped in sweat
I sense not all is right
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Slowly rise across the floor
Wrapped tightly in my rug,
Each step an inch more like a mile
My hand is on the door
...
I pull it slowly slight ajar
Praying it won't creak,
Around the corner in the dark
Her room I see afar
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But less four yards yet still a mile
Horror comes so real,
I pat the bed to find her gone
It's just a little while
...
Till sunrise race back to my room
With blanket wrapped still tight,
A monster in the house it is
Each room it's crawling through
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Then like a light he's there beside
Me sitting on my bed,
My little Leroy dog so small
I draw him to me tight
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Not so big but black and tan
He laps away the tears,
I think back to his fate so sad
He suffered back those years
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Supposed to send poor Leroy down
To me upon the train,
I didn't know it wouldn't be
For Leroy died in pain
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You broke your promise, didn't care
Though wait you knew I would,
You gave my dog to someone else
I don't know how you could
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To let him die out on that road
While each week in and out,
Four pm on platform one
My dog he never came
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Back to the house and scared to breathe
In case that thing it hears,
I make no sound I deep down know
It's feeding off my fears
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But where is she where did she go?
To leave me in this bother,
Off in the night, I wished so much
That I could see my brother
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Yes he's big he'd go and fight
And slay that thing with eyes,
Yet here I am at three alone
Alone I'll have to fight
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Then up I grab my dog and run
Do tear out of that house,
And on my bike I pedal hard
An hour before the sun
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Comes up around on Slider Street
I walk those motel stairs,
Through the window I can see
Two bodies lying bare
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Naked not a shred of cloth
She pulls the rug across,
The bed too late I found her then
That nakedness my wroth
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You broke a family through that sin
As would a hurricane,
Three decades more I seen you since
Your memory like a rain
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That stinks and rots and cuts and burns
More acid than it should,
But aged and worn I'm sure you are
So glad the worm it turns
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One bearded pimp so long now dead
May thee forever more,
Alone be just and just is be
Time evens every score
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