Shots rang out shots rang out

Don't remember much that night

I was takin' in the mess

But there was just one pretty site

The tattoo on her chest

I only saw the wing

It was sticking out bright orange



And I wish that bird

Would just take her away

Far away far away from here



Shots rang out shots rang out

She just shivered in the cold

She just wore a wedding band

She had a daughter three years old

And a hand full of men



Oh I still have dreams

About the hands of those men

They would pay her and rape her again



Shots rang out shots rang out

She went running through the night

Went running through the storm

Watched the bullet taking flight

Heard his head hit the floor

Heard the sirens coming fast

She just waited in the door



And here we sit

'Neath these prison walls

Wearing stripes

Wearing birds

And that's all

Wearing stripes

Wearing birds

And that's all