"I suppose I got off with a warning"

What He Forgot on learning the lawyer who lost my house for me has been arrested now for double homicide After he took the rest of my money The lawyer was arrested for murder Two murders since he shot the witness too A mother and one who would protect her They say he did nothing at all for me Bringing the ruin of things as they were Who knows why people do the things they do? Who knows how people can be so unkind? He was a lawyer who looked at his fee As what was most important in each case And when he felt like killing then would shoot To lose his humanity with his mind I am just glad I am not in his place But nor am I in my place anymore He was a pirate plundering for loot And now I stand outside my locked front door His crooked lawyer joke turned out to be At my expense to cost everything but Life taken from others if not from me I suppose I got off with a warning And I still have life left no matter what He took the rest but now what is that for? Prison and disgrace and the stink of greed Life as exercise in futility Here in the canyon in this rented room I am alive and I have all I need Love is the attitude I will assume I will be here to welcome the morning And I will remember what he forgot My heart will never break though it may bend And after I have blossomed then my seed Will rise to remember me at the end +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMIX