Red after dark Not sure what do say anymore

Red after dark

Not sure what do say anymore

What I am sure is, I have to say something...



Posted this song before

Means even more now, than then...

"On bended knee is no way to be free

Lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently

That all my destinations will accept the one that's me

So I can breathe..."

I remember when I was 15 I saw some cops while I was walking and went a different way to avoid

White 15 year old, you knew it wasn't going to be officer friendly

Didn't want a confrontation

You know, Skinny white kid # target

What I didn't want, I got

Harassed me, pushed me around and said some shit you can't take back

The turning trick?

Some very bad shit to a 15 year old, really bad in an alley with no one around

I wasn't breaking any law

That night and every other time I was around a cop

I wanted to reach...

Truth is, my Dad some much worse thing to me

What he said to me, I wanted to reach...

It was some though words

Maybe that is what is missing in parenting

Some though words

While I didn't want to hear it

While I didn't agree with it

While even long after his death I would have hoped there was a better way to get the message to me

Now I know, there was no other way

It's called though love

I had a bunch though love run in with cops over the years

Some on them, some one me

Seems like a few times a year

I remember undercover cops pulling me over for doing 60 over

How dare they!

That was my top speed in my MGB GT

My, non S Healey would only do 70mph

My Triumph, now that 6 would kick S, non S though

Snow on the ground

Bald tires on wire wheels

Yeah, I might have been going a tad over

"Can we see your license?"

Haven't you seen it before?

Have we did this before?

No...

What do you mean, No?

I got a couple of crickets... I mean a few previous tickets

Try them out of your pocket while handcuffed in the back seat

I was one of 4 cars speeding that night

How do I know?

I was the only dude in a foreign car

3 others were doing 110 mph

I get youth

I get above the law

Even back then, cops really gave me a hard time

More than you know

I remember getting pulled in the same MGB GT

Driving home a drunk guy from a bar

Turned left, hard left...

Drunk guy said, you know that was a cop?

I said thank god I had two wheel on the ground or I'd be in some shit

They said I had only two wheels on the ground when they pulled me over

I said which two?

I said, you should see the shit I can do with one big wheel...

Didn't go over well

I remember that same car I was trying to push start

Cops pulled up and said, "Nice night to steal a car"

They smiled when they said that

Good cops

They deescalated the situation

Funny thing, I couldn't find the keys at that moment

Guy with me was a Vietnam vet

He as wearing the jacket he wore there

He kept walking

Kept walking down the block

"Hey where is you friend going?"

Maybe looking for my keys?

Guy asked me a year later to bail him out of jail

Seems he was caught walking out of Walgreens with a case a beer without paying

Seems like looting before looting was popular today

I bail him out

I got a lot of shit from the police for doing it

Seems there were patterns

Guy owned me $300

Now another $100 for bail

Never saw a penny of it

$400 to figure out who is full of shit?

Worth it

And that was back in a day I made a few bucks an hour

200 hours

Sometimes in life it might take you a life time to figure out who are your friends

200 hours well worth it

Wasn't about the money anyway

Here's the kicker

This is where it hurts me...

He was a social worker for vets at the VA

Guy didn't need to steel beer

Last time I talked to him was when I picked him up from jail

You want to get over cops?

You are naive as to how systemic this goes

My city, now the neighborhood that need the stores and the jobs, are the most are getting hit

What will happen next is every citizen standing up for justice

You rob a store, and let's get this clear...

Looting is robbing. It's a crime

When you rob, you are putting a knee to not only the store owner neck, but their employees

Back in the day of democracy, you could elect people willing to make a change

What some haven't figure out is your protests are being 'gamed'

Your protests are being 'gamed'

I remember last night someone saying, would you stop calling them protesters

Those protesters went home peacefully

No protesters would condone violence and crime

Today in our land of democracy, you could elect people willing to make a change

But wait, there is more

Isn't what is happening today like what has been happening on message board for the last 10 years?

People taking advantage of others?

Some really good companies trying to help people, and the "mob" comes in and loots?

I am battling that 'mob' on a message board

I am at a lost for the mental mob mentality they instill

What you reap, you will sow...