Friday, June 2, 2017

"Set the Beast Free" #Poetry #Marijuana #Ganja

The Rockhouse loves the ganja
and has smoked it for fifty years
through all of it we've seen the game
as junkies have fallen in tears
The Feds see what they want to see
and blamed it all on me
because any fool already knows it
ganja monkeys set the beast free

The State will find those bastards
and kill this filthy, crawling snakes
and we'll bring out the entire goon squad
or whatever force it takes
but we don't do a thing about narcotics
despite all our big talk
we saw some words about Big Pharma
but it was just another balk

Pills rain down on us from across the sky
like they're miracles from Heaven
so they eat those little miracles
playin' seven comes eleven
but they only wind up junkies
and crying themselves to sleep
and they don't need to ask the Lord
they have no souls to keep

Ganja monkeys didn't do that
and we're not at all defensive
but it's something you should know
before you start this grand offensive
because the junkies are already dying
in so many numbers we don't know
but where is any type of act
to try to make that slow

There's no way you can kill a snake
unless you nail its head
but the ones who say they'll do it
spend all their time in bed
with the ones who make that evil
and sell it everywhere
but that doesn't seem to matter
and the State just doesn't care

We don't care if you like ganja
since that just means more for us
but if you want to start a war
then you're riding the wrong bus
We don't know any junkies
and would not bring one home
when you already know the reason
they'll steal when they're alone

We don't see any help for addicts
without killing the problem at the source
since anything else we've ever seen
has only made it worse
There's a plague from those evil drugs
and you know that word is real
so if you really will be worrying
you need to think more than just feel

Ganja monkeys didn't do it
and we're not at all defensive
but it's something you should know
before you start this grand offensive

- Colonel Abuthnot Jones

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