Followup to New on the List

[Ted Jackson jr. 6L6]

>
> The first and third verses are fine (and that first line is a killer),
> but the other verses are horrible.  Her husband is a wife-beater,
> so now we have the justification for killing him.  We don't need
> no stinkin' justification!  We'll kill him because we want his wife!
> *That*'s reason enough.  The "old" BOC would left in the ambiguity.
>
The ambiguity's still there.  I think the guy's a stalker, not her
boyfriend.  If he was her lover, he'd know for sure if the woman was
being beaten up.  I think the dude is in love with her, and she
doesn't know it, and he's just daydreaming about her...