{"id":34,"date":"2016-10-05T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/one-more-battered-woman\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T08:08:00","slug":"one-more-battered-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/one-more-battered-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Battered Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nONE MORE BATTERED WOMEN<\/span><\/b>
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel January 1981 – Middlesbrough \/ Coventry<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\n“It’s late at night, I should be sleeping it off.<\/span>
\nCouple next door, they’re having it off.<\/span>
\nI can hear all their caper, walls as thin as paper.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nI can’t believe that you walked out on me<\/span><\/div>\n

I didn’t mean to bruise your face so badly.”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\nChorus<\/span>
\nOne more Battered woman<\/span><\/i>
\nToo late for recompense<\/span><\/i>
\nOne more battered women<\/span><\/i>
\nToo late to have more sense<\/span><\/i>
\nOne more battered women.<\/span><\/i>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n“God hear me, it must have been the drink<\/span>
\nGod help me I, I Just didn’t think!<\/span>
\nMy fists were in a fever,<\/span>
\nI didn’t mean to beat her.<\/span>
\nMy own women, just walked out on me.<\/span>
\nSweet delicate flower, sure is punishment to me.”<\/span>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nChorus ….<\/span>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n“Where are you woman? You belong here with me.<\/span>
\nI’ve got a legal contract – they call it matrimony.<\/span>
\nWhere they hiding you – I get my hands on you –<\/span>
\nYou godamn bitch – my hands they itch.<\/span>
\nGonna harass all your friends til I find your hidden niche.”<\/span>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nChorus ….<\/span>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nOh my darling – I love you very much<\/span>
\nI can be gentle and soft of touch<\/span>
\nTreat you tenderly<\/span>
\nHandle you mannerly<\/span>
\nWon’t you come back – I’m in such a stew<\/span>
\nYou know I’m helpless – on my own without you.!<\/span>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nChorus ….<\/span>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n“That time I raped you in front of the child<\/span>
\nThat time I broke your arm, I went really really wild.<\/span>
\nThat time I kicked you,<\/span>
\nWhen I was sick on you..<\/span>
\nI just did what a man has to do.”<\/span>
\nOh my god – I should be locked up in a zoo.<\/span>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nChorus<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\n…<\/span>
\nOn a visit back to Coventry, a female friend told me of her time in a Battered women’s hostel and gave me an insight into the psychology of the situation. I sent her the lyric and she thought I had captured it.  John Lennon’s I’m Losing you <\/i>was in my head while I wrote it – that kind of feel. This appeared as a poem in my first poetry chapbook The Escaped Poet<\/i> 1984.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ONE MORE BATTERED WOMEN \u00a9Trev Teasdel January 1981 – Middlesbrough \/ Coventry “It’s late at night, I should be sleeping it off. Couple next door, they’re having it off. I can hear all their caper, walls as thin as paper. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}