Wash Me Clean

Pretty face

A work of art

A picture of grace

She walks slow

Talks easy

She goes

Where she has to go

She says

Whatever she has to

To make it by

Make it through

Another long day

But tonight

She's wearing down

A bottle of whiskey

Won't save her now

A long drag

Won't make it better

She can't erase

The stain

The mark

Because some scars

Are just too deep

Too raw

Some things

You just can't erase

That's what they say

Pretty face

But ugly wounds

On the inside

She's all torn up

Worn down

On the inside

On the inside

She's bleeding

Rubbed too raw

She's seen it all

Been everywhere

And all she wants

What she desperately needs

Is a million years

Of sleep

Because

That pretty face

Doesn't get her what she wants

When what she wants

Mean something

Matters

At the end

Of a long day

A hard day

She has nothing left to give

Nothing left to say

Mouth dry

From fighting back

Giving all she has

To strangers

Who don't care

It's all too easy

To not care

Right back

Take my pretty face

She says

It don't mean a damn thing to me

Take this little house

It won't hold up my heart

When it gets heavy

With pain

When it rains

Take it all away

Wash me clean

Please

Wipe me clean

I'm tired

Of being tired

And this broken heart

Is getting harder to carry

So please

Wash me clean