The Ballad of Edward and Lisa

from Cracked Picture Frames by Robert Chaney

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lyrics

my name is lisa your honor
white female aged forty-one
and i hope that you punish me proper
for all the sins that i done
cause i failed to protect little edward
from the vices that stoke satan's fires
from the violence and sex throughout our world
that he'd witnessed with his own two eyes

dispatcher my name is jason
please dispatch the police at once
cause my girl's got a wound on her face and
her nephew is covered in blood
and his grandma is pacin the kitchen
edwards lyin down facin the sky
and lisa's recitin religion
edward's cryin red tears from his eyes

may the lord be with poor little ed now
through the dark of the rest of his days
i know even a blind man can see how
the lord works in mysterious ways

and next the news at eleven
with al sunshine on your channel five
south florida woman arrested
for stabbin' a boy through the eyes
and for ten hours he was left bleeding
his grandma did nothin at all
til a man arrived on the scene and
summoned police with his call

may the lord be with poor little ed now
through the dark of the rest of his days
i know even a blind man can see how
the lord works in mysterious ways

and me i'm just sittin here thinkin
about the fields full of sufferin' seeds
sowed in the name of religion
planted throughout history
they say the ways of the lord are mysterious
and you know they're a mystery to me
so somebody preach to poor edward
exactly how much god he needs

may the lord be with poor little ed now
through the dark of the rest of his days
i know even a blind man can see how
the lord works in mysterious ways

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from Cracked Picture Frames, released February 15, 2015

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