The Needle Lies


Nikki: 	"I've had enough and I WANT OUT!"
Dr. X: 	"You can't walk away now." 

I looked back once
And all I saw was his face
Smiling, the needle crying
Walking out of his room
With mirrors, afraid I heard him scream
You'll never get away

Cold and shaking
I crawled down alleys to try
And scrape away the tracks that marked me
Slammed my face into walls of concrete
I stared, amazed at the words written on the wall

Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name

Wet and raving
The needle keeps calling me back
To bloody my hands forever
Carved my cure with the blade
That left me in scars
Now every time I'm weak
Words scream from my arm

Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name


After Nikki leaves, Mary is plagued by the vision of Nikki turning
into Father William.  As they made love on the altar, the memories
came flooding back.  Years filled with men who has used her, degraded
and beaten her, and driven their hatred and coldness into her heart.
Once, she thought Nikki was her hope.  But now he seemed like all
the rest.

She hated him.  She hated men.  She hated life.

"Anybody home?"  Unable to shake his addiction, and feeling beaten
in his confrontation with Dr. X, Nikki returns.  "Mary?"
He finds her dead in her room.