Chapter Forty-Eight
BAD GIRLS
[ a song, country-western ]
They were bad girls who lived above the town saloon
Where they slept away the day and danced beneath the moon
Yeah, they were bad girls who played with evil men
Camped beside the lion's cage deep within the devil's den
They were bad girls who had been around the block
All the town folk put them down, they pretended to be shocked
They were bad girls who had heard their pretense lies
And knew they were just like them, they could see through the disguise
Yeah, they were bad girls, whose heart cried out for good
But they lived outside the law 'cause obey they never could
And they were bad girls, longin' to be free
Free from the pain and chains of misery
They were bad girls out lookin' for a good time
Lookin' for a meanin', for a reason and a rhyme
And they went up against the law underneath the desert sun
They went lookin' for life's pleasure, lookin' for whatever's fun
Yeah, they were bad girls who got trampled through the mud
Their nightmare was full of terror and their day was full of blood
They were bad girls stealing what they could not borrow
They were livin' for the moment never thinkin' 'bout tomorrow
Yeah, they were bad girls, whose heart cried out for good
But they lived outside the law 'cause obey they never could
And they were bad girls, longin' to be free
Free from the pain and chains of misery
They were bad girls who tried all life ever offers
But got trapped in greed's desire between the demon's coffers
And they went down to the river where they once heard angels sing
They went lookin' for release from the pain and sufferin'
They were bad girls who resisted their society
Fought against the chains that kept them from bein' free
And they were bad girls runnin' from the devil's harm
Lookin' for a place of rest, way out West on an Oregon farm
Yeah, they were bad girls, whose heart cried out for good
But they lived outside the law 'cause obey they never could
And they were bad girls, longin' to be free
Free from the pain and chains of misery
And they were tryin', they were cryin', they were dyin' to be free
Free from the pain and chains of misery
But they lived outside the law 'cause obey they never could
And they lived outside the law 'cause obey they never could
Yeah, they lived outside the law 'cause obey they never could
(Been around the block, even been to Hollywood)
Yeah, lived outside the law 'cause obey they never could
And obey they never could, and obey they never could
They lived outside the law 'cause obey they never could
Yeah, they lived outside the law 'cause obey they never. . . could *
Ms. Foundation for Women
Stepping Stones
Agencies
DEDICATED TO: Mae West, America's very best bad girl. Also dedicated
to The Dixie
Chicks,
personifying the nakedness of We The People after our unbridled rape by a deceitful unprincipled
warmongering administration of gross political malfeasance, a corrupt congress of
corporation-puppet sleazery and a patronizing sponsor-appeasing mass media of embedded corporate
mercenary bottom-line mass ignorance.
*FootNote: Loosely based on the motion picture Bad Girls, starring Drew Barrymore,
Andie MacDowell, Mary Stuart Masterson and Madeleine Stowe; written by Ken Friedman and Yolanda
Finch, produced by Jonathan Finch, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, released by 20th Century Fox (1994).
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