Not To Blame - Joni Mitchell
The story hit the news
From coast to coast
They said you beat the girl
You loved the most
Your charitable acts
Seemed out of place
With the beauty
With your fist marks on her face
Your buddies all stood by
They bet their fortunes
And their fame
That she was out of line
And you were not to blame
Six hundred thousand doctors
Are putting on rubber gloves
And theyre poking
At the miseries made of love
say They theyre learning
How to spot
The battered wives
Among all the women
They see bleeding through their lives
I bleed
For your perversity
These red words that make a stain
On your white-washed claim that
She was out of line
And you were not to blame
I sayheard your baby
When he was only three
Daddy, lets get some girls
One for you and one for me.
His mother had the frailty
You despise
the And looks
You love to drive to suicide
Not one wet eye around
Her lonely little grave
Said, he was out of line girl
You were not to blame.