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Bad for Business
© Jennifer Mansfield Peal 2004
Idea from Jenny Nazak

The light is green but the cars stop anyway
To see the girl in the thigh-high boots
Her boots are green, shiny green vinyl
And she stops the traffic as she waits for the bus

And the girls of the street as they smoke their cigarettes
Cut their eyes
She’s bad for business

Because she never says yes when they offer her a ride
Never gets inside, never takes the money
When the third man yells with the third tires screeching
She looks him in the eye, and she says, “Trust me -

If I sold this I wouldn’t be waiting
For the bus”
She’s bad for business

And the girls of the street as they smoke their cigarettes
Cut their eyes as they stand waiting for a man
And they think, “Butt-faced bitch, with her stuff in the street
And her thigh-high boots, why does she look like that
What does she do with that?
She’s bad for business, she’s bad for business…”

Well, the men who think she sells are not the men she wants to meet
They watch her legs from the street, watch her get on the bus
And the girls who think she sells, and the men who think she’s meat
They watch her legs from the street, watch her get on the bus

And the girls of the street as they smoke their cigarettes
Cut their eyes
She’s bad for business

© 2004 Jennifer Mansfield Peal. All Rights Reserved.