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A shade of slaughter house red

The other woman was painted up to win
Slipped on her ruby heels and grabbed her heart of tin
He wasn’t royalty the night he came to roam,
into her bedroom like a stray without a home.

Those scarlet kisses he could not remove
His infidelity was so easy to prove.
She saw his gold band, she didn’t care,
As he ran his fingers through her hair


A shade of slaughter house red was the lipstick she used
A shade of slaughter house red made that man blow a fuse
A shade of slaughter house red was the colour she saw
The night he walked out that door

But he was different, she said “You better call”
Her love appeared like graffiti on a wall
And so it started, neither knew where it would go
He drove home every night, his wife would never know.


A shade of slaughter house red was the lipstick she used
A shade of slaughter house red made that man blow a fuse
A shade of slaughter house red was the colour she saw
The night he walked out that door


The lipstick on his neck, it branded him a cheat,
Brought his wife to tears and brought him to his feet.
He said “I’ll end it, it was just a bad affair.”
She said “You do it now!”. He drove right over there.

The other woman screamed and shouted when he said
He only loved her when drunk and in her bed.
He said “It’s over”, turned to walk into the night
She found that little gun and pulled the trigger tight.

A shade of slaughter house red was the lipstick she used
A shade of slaughter house red made that man blow a fuse
A shade of slaughter house red was the colour she saw
The night he walked out that door.

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from Between my hat and my boots, released May 24, 2015
Written by A Roberts © 2014

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