Gesundheit - Spose

Smashed in the emergency room

Screaming like a woman giving birth from her womb

Feeling like he’d fallen to the earth from the moon

What a turbulent gloom, he got shot in the chest

Two bullets ripped the flesh, the blood soaked the car, hard

Old lady snubnose, opposite a aardvark

He was holding a cold Miller like Bode

Then two shots to the heart, double Bon Jovi

Now he’s thinking like a record while the nurse applying pressure

Freaking on a stretcher, definitely gonna die

He had just pulled a knife on his wife in the night

Old lady pops up, pow, pow, surprise

They used to beat their son right in front of their mama

His name wasn’t Chris, left her looking Rihanna

Three days a week, maybe four if the Pats lost

Isaac wishing he could move to his dad’s spot

But tonight was different

Stepdad collapsed backwards, smashed the dishes

Blood puddles, linoleum in the kitchen

While the old lady disappeared, efficient

Like an assassin, in and out, the hit impeccable

All she left her calling card, it was a stethoscope

But nobody caught the face on her

His family screaming like they’re at a Drake concert

So now it’s looking like ER

George Clooney tryna do CPR

As his blood run like DMC

He’s just reminiscing, had a GMC

Spent the weekends free

With Sarah singing CMT

Before she was his wife, before she feared for her life

Nancy winked behind the EMT

Then he flatline died, that’s the E-N-D

Or is it?

Three weeks previous

Sarah’s crying cause her fetus is dying before he ever had a chance

Took his last breath, little heart in his chest met death before they ever held

hands

He’d never grow

Tadpole to the Leviathan

Live to learn to try and fail the love to feel to try again

The nurse is Nancy on the night he died

The elephant in the room let out a mighty sigh

But Nancy knew the deal though

As she put the stethoscope to the earlobes

Sarah said «It was an accident»

Nancy rolled her eyes, «Lean back, relax again»

Sarah’s heart pound, like her second husband right now

Nancy frowns, saw that Sarah’s head swelled around her hair

«What happened to your head?»

Sarah said, «I fell down the stairs»

But Nancy checked the blood pressure and knew

That Sarah was a victim of domestic abuse

Nancy wishes she could teach her man a lesson or two

So Nancy saw through the lies that she explained

It was transparent as a dad who had a sex change

This was kinda like a cry for help

Her baby just died, she could die herself

Plus her other son was living in this hell

He was age twelve, «What's his name?»

«His name’s Isaac,» tears dripping from his eyelids

Sitting in the corner playing Angry Birds

Forgetting angry words he heard in private

He didn’t sniffle, he just let the tears trickle in silence

The smile that he wore to school was one of his disguises

He would soon exit from the cycle of violence

But that’ll have to wait for the encore

Tonight, tears shed like where you keep the lawnmower

Three weeks later

Nurse Nancy in the '09 Sentra scrubs leather gloves and her dentures

Got a sticker on the back window, NPR turned up like the bat signal

Thirty years now, working as a nurse

So she’s seen it all from the birth to the hearse

So she lurked with the pistol in the purse

Always bring the heat into a cold world, what a reverse

Too many women battered and beaten and bruised

Bleeping and bleeding, got the blues cause their husband’s attitude is a heathen

So she took it in her own hands

Pop pop, bring a groan out the grown man

She kept the heater, that’s a nine-millimeter

She had caught more bodies than a male cheerleader

Every victim was a child abuser or wife beater

She would heat 'em up and give 'em all a fever (Say ahhh)

Tonight her victim had a Miller on his breath

Played a villain, didn’t know the killer on his deck

He liked to beat his wife in private

Leave bruises the color of violet in front of her son, Isaac

Nancy’d seen her at the hospital abused

She was too afraid to run away, impossible to move

So Nancy slid up in the room like-

Stethoscope glinting in the moonlight

But he hadn’t seen it sparkle yet, the middle of the physical argument

He had the veins popping out the face, Marlboro red

Her uniform medical, mask masquerade

Somersault behind the table like a woman half her age

Then Nancy popped up

Told him «Stop,» what?

Pop pop, gun sound, then he dropped, what now?

Sarah screamed out into the June night

And put her hand to her mouth like gesundheit