I The Only Friend

I The Only Friend

Branch bending weighted with strange fruit

You dashing, pinstriped suit

Double breasted buttons loose

Dangling there within the noose

Jerk, tremble, heart beats end

I the only watching friend

Hostile people point and leer

Your life forfeit out of fear

Swore your innocence time and again

The jury said guilty, with a grin

A crime of passion they swore

Found you crying by the door

The body cold, blood everywhere

You said you found her lying there

Cops blamed you, no one else around

You had just arrived from out of town

They dragged you in though you didn’t fight

Beat you under a bright light

Broke you fingers one by one

Trying to find where you hid the gun

Beat your body black and blue

All the time swearing it was you

Her blood and yours there on your hands

They beat you badly you barely could stand

You swore that you loved her and could never do this

The blood on your hands was from your one last kiss

You said you embraced her lifeless form tight

And had God himself been in front of you there would have been a fight

You said you released her and crawled to the door

And that’s where they found you huddled up on the floor

Insanely you begged for release from these earthly bounds

Begged let me join her in heavenly gowns

Then they accused you of taking her life

And that was the start of this horrible strife

Dragged off to the jail beaten to a pulp

So parched and thirsty you couldn't even gulp

Days and weeks knowing evil is out there and no one will seek

Falsely accused of a crime and the outlook is bleak

Months and years knowing the trail has gone cold as old bone

The trial, the lawyers, the money all gone,

and you thinking you're all alone,

but I'm here; I'm watching your final hour

They would have known the truth too,

had they looked in your shower,

I was there watching each one of you

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