Rocking Horse - Floater

Johnny rocks on his rocking horse

Dreaming of the day of the big divorce

Hoping somehow that everything will get better

Johnny turns up the music loud

Sings himself hoarse just to drown them out

She wants to leave, but they both know he won’t let her

She’s not gonna be brave

She’s not gonna be to slow

To make her attack

When he starts showing his back like a fool yah

Been made to take all that she could

Mother and child, oh make their escape

Yah, they left him lying there in a dark pool of his own hate

There was no time to contemplate

In a house by the door, there’s a rifle with a rusted sight

Taking aim, making sure, going to end it all tonight

He’s the lamb with a loaded gun

Quietly beggin' her to get it done

She looks like a ghost but at least she’s not weeping…

She’s not gonna be brave

But she’s not gonna be to slow

To make her attack

When he starts showing his back like a fool

Yah Oh

Been made to take al that she could

Mother and child oh make their escape

Oh yah

They left him lying there in a dark pool of his own hate

There was no time to contemplate

Red

Black

Faces that come undone

Beg

Plead

And then drop like setting suns

Compassion please

Not until she’s

Been broken

Been broken

Oh now day after day learn to swallow down

Bite after bite of all the pride you can

She said, «keep your head when he comes

Bleed and suffering

Find freedom»

Compassion please not until she’s

Been broken

Whisper:

It’s ok

It’s ok

It’s ok

Everything is okay

Everything is okay