For His Own Protection

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For His Own Protection

Post by good4somethingbum » Wed Oct 01, 2014 12:53 pm

For His Own Protection ©2014 Robert George BMI

Benny’s double facial mole looked like a coupla stink bugs
Copulatin’ nice n easy on a faded pink rug
As he stood there on the porch and slipped his key in all three locks
Well, his house had movie posters like Le Mis and Gone Girl
And a giant one of Halle Berry as a Bond Girl
And they watched him pull the pistols from a dented cardboard box

Bought ‘em at a shady Phoenix gunshow for defense
Crime was rampant, cops were dirty and it just made sense
One gun in his desk…the other in a kitchen drawer
He watched Nancy Grace and checked the padlocks on his door

And for all we plot and scheme and plan
Life ends up close to where it began


Joe was nervous…it was twenty minutes past eleven
And he’d told his Aunt Theresa he’d be home by seven
So he took a chance and quickly cut across a stranger’s yard
He ain’t like his brother…he don’t traffic on the dark side
Dealin’ and survivin’ in that ghettoland apartheid
Bein’ shot twelve times just made his brother scarred and hard

Benny thought he saw a shadow by his backyard gate
Fumbled for his desk and grabbed his brand new thirty-eight
Though ole Benny thought he barely nicked him in the side
When the paramedics fin’lly showed poor Joe had died

And for all we plot and scheme and plan
Life ends up close to where it began


There were months and months of sound bite quotes by Tavis Smiley
Twitter feuds between the Rev. Al and Bill O’Reilly
Cornell West got mad and threw a folding chair at Hannity
There were lotsa cheesy platitudes from Deepak Chopra
Soledad O’Brien rapped with Snoop Lion and with Oprah
Benny was acquitted in a cesspool of insanity

When a paparazzi snuck through Benny’s backyard gate
Benny’d fin’lly had enough and grabbed his thirty-eight
And he thought of guilt and life and how it all went south
Halle Berry watched him put that pistol in his mouth

Sometimes in the naked night
Comes a moment of reflection
He committed suicide
For his own protection


Now, Detective Scarn was always bummin’ smokes
Takin’ longer lunches…drinkin’ rum n cokes
And he loved his Cuban stogies
Foot long deli meatball hoagies
And horseradish on his corn on the cob
Ev’rybody’s got some life long private needs
Some guys like a six of Bud and Live at Leeds
But Detective Scarn liked Hooter’s
Usin’ precinct work computers
Browsin’ escort sites and porn on the job

He was prone to drunken anger…prone to fits
Had his testimony almost blown to bits
When that greasy, grimy bastard
Showed up half asleep and plastered
From a gin lunch at the Rabbit in Red
Liked to flash around them fifty dollar tips
For them buxom dancin’ girls with smaller hips
Had a dark n lonely sex life
Dumped by his religious ex-wife
Cos of his creepy habit in bed


He was payin’ through the nose for powder, booze and nookie
And the Belmont Stakes cost him ten grand with his bookie
He was scramblin’ like a cockroach up a toilet bowl of debt
Then by chance he saw his way up just as clear as crystal
He was dispatched to a house and found a hidden pistol
It was some poor sap’s whose swan song was a rhapsody in red

Scarn had thumbed a C-note for a snitch and got the word
There was gonna be a deal near fifty-third and third
So he waited near the dumpster by an old newsstand
Shot ‘em all and put that pistol in the dealer’s hand

And for all we plot and scheme and plan
Life ends up close to where it began


Then he took the dealer’s cash and stuffed it in his pocket
Didn’t see the dealer’s eyeballs twitching in their sockets
As he turned his back and headed down the midnight street
Well, the dealer raised the gun and shot him through the liver
Scarn lay writhing on the concrete in a scarlet river
As the dealer spit some blood and staggered to his feet

Scarn’s eyes stared at an eternity that’s free of debt
Slipp’ry fingers took the money and his cigarettes
Sirens in the distance as the dealer walked off slow
And he thought of street survival and his brother Joe

And sometimes in the naked night
Comes a moment of reflection
Maybe his kid brother died
For his own protection

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Re: For His Own Protection

Post by SpecialGuestVillain » Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:24 pm

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Re: For His Own Protection

Post by cosmicdolphin » Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:45 pm

SpecialGuestVillain wrote:
Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:24 pm
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I get it now. You have two forum accounts. No wonder I didn't realise you were the same person. I remember now - the guy who didn't know who Robin Fredricks was. That was you.

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Re: For His Own Protection

Post by cosmicdolphin » Thu Feb 17, 2022 3:52 pm

CTWF wrote:
Thu Feb 17, 2022 3:42 pm
good4somethingbum wrote:
Wed Oct 01, 2014 12:53 pm
Benny’s double facial mole looked like a coupla stink bugs
Copulatin’ nice n easy on a faded pink rug
I could totally see that in a Kanye West diss track.
Would need a few more N words

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Re: For His Own Protection

Post by cosmicdolphin » Sat Feb 19, 2022 8:52 am

CTWF wrote:
Thu Feb 17, 2022 3:55 pm

I can literally hear him shouting them in my head.
They can treat that nowadays

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