Don't Know Why - Karine Polwart

Verse 1

Woke up this morning in a cemetery kinda weary

Looked over my shoulder and I seen somebody just been freshly buried

Was kinda scary cuz my shirt was soaked in blood man

Shovel in my hand so I had to be the one that dug that

But I had no knowledge

I don’t remember even leavin the house man

Can’t explain how I got here

It’s like I was walkin but I was unconscious

But I had to be wallin

Cuz I seen the bloody machete ah

It was used on the victim to shred him up

Oh my god don’t tell me I… Oh shit

Something’s going wrong I don’t know whats going on

All I know was I was home then I woke up here alone

Wondering who was in that hole I ain’t stickin around to know

My mind is blank and I’m so cold and I don’t know which way to go

Runnin in the rain

I’m barely breathin more like wheezin

Runnin in the rain

How could this be while i was sleepin

I made it to my house I closed the blinds and bolt the door

Somebody please tell me whats going on cuz I don’t fuckin know

Chorus

Verse 2

Jumped in the shower washed the blood from off my body

Rolled up a blunt I’m feeling psychotic mixed me up some ginentonic

But I’m nauseous feeling woozy like I’m in the twilight zone the movie

How did I do it how did I get through it

and I wondered if anyone knew what I was doing

Sat down and clicked on the tube

Flipped to the news I’m trying to get answers

Whos body is on my hands and how did the situation get so drastic

Its madness

And I just can’t take no more I passed out

Couldn’t help but crash out from last night I’m dashed out

Slept for a minute but I didn’t sleep to long before

I was awakin by some heavy bangin on my door

It was the popo cuz inside they shined their flashlights

gotta funny feeling this has something to do with last night

They tried to tell me that I’m wanted for kidnap and murder

tellin me they got proof that I murdered my ex-employer

Don’t think my lawyer can help me with this one

I grabbed my pistol put the clip in

and i’m out the back window

I’m gone.