A Conversation with Ramirez

I

I know you didn’t do it Ramirez,

everybody knows you didn’t man.

Even Bovey and Hendrick are with me,

they’re not gonna do s**t in that court.

 

We’re gonna be right here when you get back,

and we’re gonna be right there when it goes down.

They got half the station coming over to court

and we sure as s**t ain’t gonna be quiet.

 

 

Listen, we all know it’s f*****g death out there,

I don’t blame you if you snapped a little,

maybe threw in a punch or two, I would,

but I know you didn’t shoot, I know it.

 

You weren’t the only one in that tunnel.

 

II

‘He’s been up there for 3 hours for christ’s sake,

give the man a break he needs to think!’

 

‘Please be seated Sergeant Deeney,

Officer Ramirez can look after himself’

 

Trying to test him man,

all these lawyers are just

f*****g around with him,

waiting for him to slip up.

 

That judge is gonna drop his bloody hammer,

It’s happening today, I know it is.

These scumbags haven’t smelled downtown,

and now they’re gonna trial some kid,

who waded a bit too deep.

 

I mean look at the f*****g kid,

he wasn’t ready.

 

There’s no way he was ready.

 

III

It’s not like I don’t understand but why

did you tell me now after all that s**t.

After I sat up there and shouted your name,

no one believed more than me.

 

I wouldn’t of told anyone, I understand Ramirez.

I’ve been in that tunnel, you can’t see s**t,

they get all around you, I know!

 

But I really thought you didn’t do it man,

especially that one kid who ran.

 

I get it I do but he didn’t have to die,

you must know that.

 

Please tell me you know that.