Lyrics - Rusty The Skatemaker by Rasputina

She was born in an oil-drum
South side of
Chicago
When
East
St.
Louis was not far away.
She'd lace knives to her boots and go down tothe riverbed
Skate around and around till the night becameday.
The cannery fellows would follow hereverywhere
From the grocery store to the
B.
Q.
E.
With their hearts all aglow from her icyback-at-you stare.
When her teeth became tight when her eyescouldn't see.
And she told herself that this was enough.
For a girl who was born in an oil-drum
She had her skates didn't need lots of stuff.
She didn't need it but she still wanted some.
She had one thing that she liked and she keptaround
She would take it with her to the riverbed.
As she skated around she always thought of apretty sound
That she heard as a girl in her mother's bed.
The sound of some breathing another breath inand out
When some lungs expand and contract like theydo.
And she looked at herself in the ice of theriverbed and
She saw a girl one which she could seethrough.

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