Henry Rollins - A Man And A Woman lyrics

A man and a woman locked in a hot apartment prison

They're in love, love

He's beatin' that woman's head against the fridgerator door

Slammin' that woman's head against the fridgerator door

They're in love, they're in love, they're in love

He's beatin' that woman to an inch of her life

Beatin' that woman to an inch of her life

Beatin' that woman to an inch of her life

The heed and the hate, the heed and the hate, the heed and the hate

The heed and the hate make the windows sweat, make the wondows sweat

Makes the walls moan, moan, moan, moan

Now outside in the hallway al the neighbors

From all the other apartment building rooms have gathered in the hallway

And they're all out there armed with their baseball bats and brooms

Listening to the man beat the woman to an inch of her life

Now all the wise guys are in the back takin' bets

The one man says,

"I say, he's gonna kill her, my money's down that says he's gonna kill her."

And the other man says,

"He's not gonna kill her, he's gonna beat that woman to an inch of her life,

beat that woman to an inch of her life, beat that woman to an inch of her

life, beat that woman to an inch of her life. That's where my money is, so

put your money down, put your money down, put your money down."

A little while later the cops come

And they come up the stairs

And they see all the people gathered in the hallways

With their baseball bats and brooms

See the wise guys in the back throwin' 5 dollar bills back and forth

And they say,

"Alright, which room is it?"

And a few of the people point to the room at the end of the hall

The cops go over there and they kick the door in

And they see the man beatin' on the woman, slammin' her head up against the

wall, beatin' that woman to an inch of her life.

And they say,

"Hey man, why you beatin' that woman to an inch of her life, why you beatin'

that woman to an inch of her life, why you beatin' that woman to an inch of

her life?"

And, the man says, get this, the man says...,

"That's no woman that's my wife,

That's no woman that's my wife,

That's no woman that's my wife,

And when she screams she turns on all the apartment lights on."