Cabin Fever NW: Music

This song is dedicated to the women at Washington Corrections Center for Women - formerly known as Purdy Treatment Center.

They covered the windows at Purdy before I could look out and see the coastline once more
They brought me to trial for a killing you see, the judge was a woman she could have been me
She could have come home through her own bedroom door to find lacy clothes scattered out on the floor
In front of a witness wrapped up in her sheets, shot her own husband who died at her feet

Chorus: Who was a killer, who could it be
Who was a killer? They said it was me, they said it was me

It kills me to think that I loved him at all, I thought he was handsome so dark and so tall
With eyes closed I followed him to the Northwest, he seemed to be searching he never would rest
Those hands once so tender soon turned into fists, the mouth that he bruised was the same one he kissed
I learned to stay silent and leave him alone, for days at a time he would never come home

Chorus

My mom used to say you can tell by their eyes, men who are truthful men who tell lies
But she had been wrong in her own life you see, my mom passed her legacy straight down to me

So I stood and heard guilty, my hand in the air, they sent me inside with some talk of the chair
A life for a life I heard the judge say, this woman’s a killer this woman must pay
Would I do it again if I just had the means? I do it again every night in my dreams
Through these covered windows I still see his eyes and wonder where wretched souls go when they die

Chorus: Who was a killer, who could it be
Who was a killer? They said it was me, they said it was me, it was me