Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Speak Easy (for Ron)

Speak-easy door is not open
Because it's broken
And this venous anomaly 
In my brain has me
Feelin the same
Three broken birds 
On the sidewalk
No police came 
To line them in chalk
But their death
 Seemed significant
Had me feelin maleficent
Old Black Man on the East Side
Different from the West 
Still he's not white
Police came to talk
With him tonight
Center for Youth not enough
Sure bet for the betterment
Standing on the street
Ain't a testament
Seventeen years and the letters rest
But the government said
They never passed the test
She got his phone restin 
In her pocket now
Alarm says get up 
But he don't know how
She loved him long
And he stood their proud
But he can't hear her now
No matter how loud she shout
Three baby birds on the sidewalk
Bullets fly and the dead talk
We got wings and they lined in chalk
Women cry and the men just scoff
Speak-easy door listen to everything
Toddlers screech and the angels sing
Americans think they need three of everything
Why don't we pay attention 
To the important things?
Speak-easy door never opened
Magic words were never even spoken
Hearts hurt can't be broken
That's why wise words say
Dance like no one is watching
Sing like no one is around
Love like your heart
Has never been broken
What was never lost
Does not need to be found
Three broken birds
On the sidewalk
Busy lives don't even see
But our world 
Is the same as their world
What you do affects him
Affects her 
Affects me
Speak easy door must be broken
'Cause nobody lined up to speak
Nobody feels any passion?
Nobody feels any heat?
Speak easy door
Must be glued shut
Because I can't even see a line
I guess the people 
Living in this country
Must feel America
Is doing just fine
Three broken birds on the sidewalk
Didn't even get to know the meaning
Of being alive before 
Falling to their death
Speak easy door sliding open
I guess someone
Remembered what to say
Sometimes it's only one world
That can save somebody's day

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