Soap Opera Sunday Breakdown

I spent the day shopping for news,
And Mad Gossip Brenda unloaded her blues,
And she said: "Angry Arthur flew into a rage in the Dog and Ditch,
Over the half measures given by the waitress - he reckons she's a witch."
Brenda spent her days infatuated by Arthur,
Nursing her stout, Arthur reminded her of her father,
But he was too busy engaged in arguments
To care to notice lonely eyes,
See, Arthur only drinks to escape the trouble and strife,
But the drink only finds him to upset his long-suffering wife,
And the woman staring from the side hardly helps,
With eyes torn between his glass and the girl behind the bar,
The girl said, "leave off, Arthur - you've had enough".
So Arthur's drink chose a few choice words for him,
Which he said, as he slinked off, winking.
Now, Pretty Penny's a popular girl with the punters,
But she's bored of the lonely men looking at her,
And she couldn't care less about the Dog and Ditch,
Or the punters choosing their poison of choice in there,
But it pays the rent, till she knocks off and Bill gets in.
And then her bad day begins...
See, Bad Bill's the villain of this messed-up town,
And he spends his days pushing drugs to the desperate,
And his nights pushing Penny around.

And Angry Arthur shouts at his long-suffering wife,
In the room above my ceiling.
And Mad Gossip Brenda listens by the wall to the left,
Longing that this time she leaves him,
And Bad Bill beats up Pretty Penny beneath my bed,
Just in time for her to hide the bruises he put on her head,
Then the dealer comes round, and gets Bill his fix.

I spent the day shopping for news,
And the night pretending I didn't exist.