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Aileen Wuornos, 1956-2002 (death penalty) was born in Rochester, MI to a Finnish mother and an incarcerated father whom she never met. She became pregnant at 13 as a result of being raped by a family friend; she was forced to give up the baby and was thrown out of her home, living in the woods at the end of a neighborhood cul-de-sac. She killed 7 men in Florida, shooting them at point blank range. She claimed it was self-defense against rape and that law enforcement allowed her to keep killing to make more money on the media deals that sprung up around her story.

This one's for Aileen.

lyrics

If it hadn’ta been Michigan
If it had been somewhere warm, maybe
That’s where I was goin,
Florida
Where it's warm

Yeah my people came over here
All the way from Finland? Sweden?
One of those blond-headed countries
Somewhere so cold

To work in the mines on the UP
To dig from the ground
From the old dead ground
If it hadn’ta been Michigan
But somewhere warm

If I hadn’t been the Cigarette Pig
Down jacket zippers rippin down
Looking for something warm
Anything warm

If I hadn’ta had it
Or if they’da let me keep it
Or if I'da been 15 and not 13

If they'da let me keep my bedroom
And not went to the woods
Like a lonesome wolven girl
Like a born bred animal
If it hadn’t been so cold

Curl up in the carshell
With the visits from the dirty fingers
You ever been to Michigan in December?
Then you don’t know
If it hadn’ta been Michigan
If it had been somewhere warm maybe
That's where I was going
Florida
Where it's warm

One of those people asked me
Asked me,
What would I have been
If if if if if if if
What would I have been?

“Archaeologist
Paramedic
Police officer
Fire person
Undercover work
or with the DEA

Or a missionary

If it hadn’ta been Michigan.

credits

from Angelmakers: Songs for Female Serial Killers, released August 8, 2018
Molly Rice: lyrics and music
Milia Ayache: lead vocals, guitar
Zorahna: bass
Michele Dunlap: drums

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