I knew these people these two people
They were in love with each other
The girl was very young about 17 or 18
I guess and the guy was quite a bit older
He was kind of rugged and wild
And she was very beautiful you know
And together they turned everything
Into a kind of an adventure And she liked that
Just an ordinary trip down the grocery
Store was full of adventure
They were always laughing at stupid things
They liked making love and they didn't much
Care for anything else because all they wanted
To do was be with each other They were always
Together and he he loved her more than he ever
Felt possible He couldn't stand being away from her
Ah
During the day when he went to work
So he'd quit just to be home with her
Then he got another job when the money ran out
And then he quit again
But pretty soon she started to worry
WomanAbout what
ManMoney I guess Not having enough
Not knowing when the next cheque was coming in
WomanYea I know that feeling
ManSo he started to get kind of torn inside
WomanHow do you mean
ManWell he knew he had to work to support her
But he couldn't stand being away from her either
WomanLassie
ManAnd the more he was away from her
The crazier he got Except now he got really crazy
He started imagining all kinds of things
WomanLike what
ManHe started thinking that she was seeing
Other men on the sly He'd come home from work
And accuse her of spending the day with somebody else
He'd yell at her and break things in the trailer
WomanThe trailer
ManYes they'd lived in a trailer home
Anyway he started to drink real bad and he'd
Stay out late to test her to see if she'd get jealous
He wanted her to get jealous But she didn't
She just worried about him
But that got him even madder He thought if
She'd never be jealous of him that she didn't
Really care about him Jealousy was a sign
Of her love for him And then one night
One night she told him that she was pregnant
She was about three or four months pregnant
And he didn't even know And then suddenly
Everything changed He stopped drinking got a steady job
He was convinced that she loved him now because
She was carrying his child and he was going to dedicate
Himself to making a home for her But the funny
Thing started to happen He didn't even know
To set it first She started to change
But the day the baby was born she began to get
Irritated with everything around her
She got mad at everything Even the baby seemed
To be an injustice to her He kept trying to make
Everything all right for her Buy her things
Take her out to dinner once a week
But nothing seemed to satisfy her
About two years he struggled to pull them back
Together like they were when they first met
But finally he knew that it was never gonna work out
So he hit the bottle again But this time it got mean
This time when he came out late at night
She wasn't worried about him nor jealous
She was just enraged She accused him of holding
Her captive by making her have a baby
She told him that she dreamed about escaping
That was all she dreamed aboutescape
She saw herself at night running naked down a highway
Running across fields running down river beds
Always running and always just when she was about
To get away he'd be there He would stop her somehow
He would just appear and stop her And when
She told him these dreams he believed them
He knew she had to be stopped when she'd leave him forever
So he tied a cow bell to her ankle so he could hear
At night if she tried to get out of bed
But she learnt how to muffle the bell by stuffing
Her sock into it and inching her way out of
The bed and into the night He caught her one night
When the sock fell out and he heard her trying
To run off the highway Caught her and dragged
Her back to the trailer and tied her to
The stool with his belt He just left her there
Went back to bed and lay there listening to her scream
Then hae listened to his son scream and he was
Surprised at himself because he didn't feel anything anymore
All he wanted to do was sleep For the first time
He wished he were far away lost in the deep
Vast country where nobody knew him Somewhere without
Language or streets And he dreamed about this place
Without knowing its name And when he woke up he was on fire
There were blue flames burning the sheets of his bed
And he ran through the flames toward the only two people he loved
But they were gone His arms were burning and
He threw himself outside and rolled on the wet ground
Then he ran He never looked back at the fire
He just ran He ran until the sun came up and
He couldn't run any further And when the sun went down
He ran again For five days he ran like
This until every sign of man had disappeared
