Young John Able
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If my room is a reflection of my mind If my house a metaphor for how far Then my mind is like a rusty crowbar A million similes I need to find It might now be my first language But when I hear it I forget about the anguish The blues, they stop and they're back again And I forget that now we end If those I meet treat me mean Then where is my control It's an after thought, timeless spells cast Two bullets shot from my soul Violence might now be the answer And as a prince it rarely ever is But sometimes kings must go to war All's fair, who cares what it's for There once was a man named John Able He never committed a crime Swooned all the girls but stuck to one Before he lost his life Pretty young thing, Rose Maple Three syllables like chili and lime He asked her to the promenade Her fro as big as her eyes He learned to read woke religion As if in another life A Black boy free, joy not misery A Chicago middle-class life He read one day in church word of the day No pride before his fall Mitochondrial Eve is believed To be the mother of us all But then one day he went driving I said I don't know how to begin So I distracted with a song She started near the end He's driving along; things are normal Unarmed man stopped him at a light Well, it was war so he was armed With a crowbar at his side You can guess that in that battle Old,Young John, he aimed to fight But that crowbar, man, got the best Poor Young John's brain had died But this story's only endings Spicy-sweet, like chili and lime The boys in blue they never could Get to the root of the crime If these pictures that I've hung up Could tell a million lies They'd say something of the truth Why poor John was crucified Reincarnation, not my language I feel that I've my own life But deep in my heart I'm incarnate of Young John, our brother, who never cried But what about young Miss Maple She's cut her hair but her eyes are still wide She cut it for the promenade And went with some other guy It's not fair, never is Me to live in my prime When John fell I was conceived You can say I was the reason he died My mind is a reflection of my past The future projected in time I can't move at the speed of light But I know I'll never stop trying
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