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The Wound That Never Heals
Os Mutantes
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Long about an hour before sunrise
She drags his body down to the edge of the swollen river
Wrapped in a red velvet curtain
Stolen from the movie theater where she works
Now quiet as a whisper
Under the stanchions of a washed out bridge
She cuts him loose
She watches as the flood waters spin him 'round once
Then carry him away
And she removes the gold ring upon her finger
She throws it in
And I wonder baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you
Baby why don't you cry
I wonder baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you
Baby why don't you cry
Cry
Cry
Cry
Three days later in a bar in southern Mississippi
She meets a man by the name of Charles Lee
She introduces herself to him as Lee Charles
"What a coincidence," he says
One week later they get married
He wakes up one night six months down the line
To find her staring at him in the oddest way
And oh when he says "Honey what's wrong?"
She says "Oh nothing dear
Except that tears are a stupid trick of God"
And by the time they find his body six weeks later
Oh hell
She's a thousand miles away
And I wonder baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you
Baby why don't you cry
I wonder baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you
Baby why don't you cry
Cry
Cry
Cry
She runs from devils
She runs from angels
She runs from the ghost of her father and five different uncles
Blinded by their memory
Seared by their pain
She'd like to kill 'em all
Yeah and kill 'em all again
She don't think much about what she's done
Or the funny feelings that she feels
No she don't
To her it's just a condition she picked up as a child
A thing she calls
The wound that never heals
The wound that never heals
And I wonder baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you
Baby why don't you cry
I wonder baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you
Baby why don't you cry
I wonder baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you
Baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you
Baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you
Baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you cry
Baby why don't you
Baby why don't you cry