A Baby Named Sam

Part1:
In The Beginning





A baby six months waiting in the womb
In three short months he will be alive
His parents will name him Samuel
But Sam for short
Not yet alive into the world
Then a sudden flash
Of what is in store
For this unborn child
When he was five
He falls out of a tree in his backyard
He breaks his right arm
When he turns eight they move to a farm
Loves playing with the chickens and pigs
Learning quick how to tend the field
And exactly what seeds would yield
A simple boy
Becomes a simple young man
As he is frolicking in the corn field next to his
He meets his love
When he is only fourteen
A plain young girl named Gene
They fell in love so deep
The coma sort of sleep
Going to the same college when they came of age
He was a football player
She was an actress on the stage
They give up their separate dreams
For something they passionately need
For love
For each other






Part 2:
Proceed With Caution




Some number of years past
They’ve since got married
Everyone is sure that this will last
Gene now in labor with their first
The first of three
Inside this sweet perfect reality
Four magical years go by
And all three have come into this place
Kate was the first
Stan was the second
Jade was the precious third
Sam loved his kids
More than he could ever say
But Sam made a huge mistake
In this dream that
We call the life of Sam

He meet a young girl at work
An attractive eighteen-year-old girl named Alexis
She worked on the floor above
His wife and family he did so love
One night there was a party for Dan
The night mail clerk
But don’t worry about him
He is unimportant to Sam’s plan
The night wore on
Past dusk
In five hours it will be dawn
Sam has been heavily drinking
Alexis has been heavily thinking
Sam is the youngest executive in the history of this company
He sure knows how to throw an awesome party
He staggers to his office to call his wife
Pay attention
Here comes the mistake of his life



Part 3:
Enter Delilah




Alexis stands behind him in the doorway
In a sultry seductive sort of way
Slowly she walks up behind Sam
Putting her hands around his waist
Whispering into his ear
“I just want a little taste”
Sam should have hesitated
Sam should have said no
However will
Has always been Sam’s biggest foe
Turning he looked into her eyes
As she raised her skirt off of her thighs
Alexis kissed him
They could feel the boiling heat between them
Oh, how it burned
Oh, how Sam yearned
Sam was six drinks passed smashed
Sam was six ways to Sunday trashed
No excuses
He did what he did
He popped like an over pressurized pop bottle lid
It’s over it’s done
A short idea of fun
Alexis leaves
As Sam upon his desk heaves

Gathering himself he finds the way out
Driving slowly home
He feels strangely alone
Looking at all the buildings he has passed a thousand times before
A pain in his gut
Wet, tired, burning, smiling, dreaming, dying and sore
Reaching his house
It’s surrounded by squad cars
Something is wrong
Someone is dead
These dark thoughts run through his head
A gun
His son
A knife
His wife
He hurls
Oh god, his girls
Sobering quickly he runs to the door
Into his home
Everyone is fine
A sigh of relief as they’re all sitting on the couch
Then why are the police at my house?
They read Sam his rights
And drive him into the night
As the three kids cry for Dad
And a wife cries tears so sad
This is the last time that Sam sees this home




Part 4:
Tears Made Of Lot




Sitting there in that jail
The day that Sam fell
Drying up his tears
His mind he clears
The police record all that he said
Sam tells how Alexis is lying
They’ve been mislead
As he sees red
Alexis got home from the party
Called the cops and said that she was sorry
Sorry that she let this man do things to her
He forcefully took what was rightfully hers
Saying what they were taught to say
“It’s not your fault, and oh how he will pay”
Sam bares his soul onto the confession tape
There is no one, nowhere that he would ever rape
However no matter what Sam did
The fluids on Alexis could not be hid
She wanted money
She wanted him to settle
She sold herself out
She wanted him to just give in
But he never would
She just wanted to be happy
But she never would
Sam fought and he fought
Freedom and redemption he sought
Alexis won
But no cash
As Gene cried on her sash
Sam is put into shackles
He is taking away
With the lions he will now lay
Judges gavel slams down
Sentencing Sam to thirteen years
Again into his eyes come tears
He kisses his wife
He picked his new life
He hugs little Jade
His account must be paid
He hugs little Kate
For his sin he must compensate
He hugs little Stan
No more family, oh man




Part 5:
His Tomb




Dark times
Behind these bars
No sun
No stars
To rapist oh what they do
Bloody, red, purple and blue
A picture of his family pinned on his wall
One day a week his family calls
Too many miles for them to visit every week
The outcome
The future is ever so bleak
Finally after ten years he gets an early release
A new chance on life
A new white virgin fleece



Part 6:
Commence The Snowball




Sent back into this cold world
One more shot
Sam has now got
Back to a new town
But on his family
The same tired frown
Starting over on a new street
Hickory Hills Lane meet and greet
Everyone knows
But they don’t speak of the past
A few years fly by
The pain and tears are almost gone
No more do they cry
Daddy is back and comforts them all
In only a short time
This family will fall



Part 7:
The Dance




It’s a rainy night in the middle of spring
Jade is out on a date with her new boyfriend
Home by ten
You know the rules
So at 9:27 they pull into the drive
Sam and Gene snug in their bed
At a quarter to ten
Jade is still outside
Still in the car
Sam is for some reason worried
So he gets up to check
A look of panic comes to his face
He opens the window and jumps to the deck
Rushing to the drivers side
His rage
His anger he cannot hide
Jade’s boyfriend is taking advantage of her
Sam grabs the handle and opens the door
He hears his daughter cry, “Stop, no more”
Grabbing the boy clean from the seat
His head on the pavement he begins to beat
“Not going to happen, not to my girl”
Then Sam’s brain begins to swirl
He is punching and smashing this kids head in
Blood squirting
Bones crushing
Again and again
Jade stand there motionless
Scared to death
As she hears this boy take his last breath
Her Dad now covered in this young mans blood
Looking to the window she sees her Mom
Sam stands up surprisingly calm
Dropping his head he walks into the house
The first thing he does is call the cops
Then he goes back outside to stand in the rain
To his family he is bringing more pain
For that brief moment, he was insane
Siren and lights come from a far
As Sam makes a wish on a falling star
His entire family stands by his side
As Sam once again takes a back seat ride




Part 8:
Permit The Collapse




Even before the trial Jade kills herself
She felt responsible
She felt that she was to blame
What a crying shame
Acquiring a rope and a chair
This world
This life
Just isn’t one bit fair
Her life drained out
Now she can’t scream or shout
Hung in your room with a noose
With God she finally calls a truce
Sam became a martyr
His past transgressions come back to haunt
Alexis
The party
That one mistake
Now not just a rapist but a killer too
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
It was all too real, all too true
So as his family cries
He is sentenced to die
Smile and say goodbye




Part 9:
Scarlet Letters




Sam is now waiting in his cell
A personal sanctuary of hell
Letters are sent to inform him of things
His perfect life filled with so many dings
The first letter he receives
Oh the hell
The pain that it brings
Stan made a bad choice
Stan made a poor decision
To hide the pain that he feels for his Dad
He started to drink
A little at first
And then it got much worse
Stan was driving home from a bash
As he would every Friday night
He had drank to much
Something wasn’t right
Stan unfortunately passed out at the wheel
He careened off the road
No pain he did feel
Thrown from the car
Imbedded in a tree
Now Sam has one child
When there were originally three
Sam can’t believe how much this has cost
Two of his babies are eternally lost
The next letter he receives is from Kate
Four days before execution
It was almost too late
She writes about her coming home
The house was quiet but she was not alone
Extremely scared
But she ventured up stairs
Slowly she inched down the hall
Hearing the water running she opens the bathroom door
Standing there in shock at what she saw
Lying in the tub was her Mom Gene
The water ran red, if you know what I mean
A suicide note found by her bed
The million thoughts that ran through her head
The mistrust
The lust
The death of two of her children
The man she thought she knew
The happy days that he blew
The hurt of this place
The smile that never returned to her face
Couldn’t live without all she did love
“I’m sorry Kate, but give your father a hug”
To finish the letter
Kate tells her Dad she will see him soon
Before the execution
Under the eclipse of the moon



Part 10:
Invoking Kevorkian



11:59 as Kate looks through the glass
Sam takes a deep lungful of air; his last
Killed by lethal injection
For you, I and the worlds protection
Kate closes her eyes
As her father dies
On him darkness at last falls
As no governor or senator calls
She walks outside the prison
Into the street
From the protesters she can feel the heat
Then from the crowd comes a hush
To Kate the reporters rush
She utters not a word
And turns away
She hasn’t spoken of her father
To this very day
The last surviving member of this home
Left standing broken and all alone
Becoming a media slave
She had no choice but to be brave




Part 11:
Magnificent Angel


Time moves on
The world turns
Funny how time doesn’t stop
When we most need it too
Now Kate can get another chance
Twenty years and her face has not changed
Not at a stare
Not at a glance
Married to a generous man
She is his biggest fan
Kate is a leading activist for rape
And the president of a group
Who helps families deal with loss
Telling them of the loved ones she lost
Touching millions
With her loving hand
Helping the world to understand
She has two kids that she loves so dear
Kate protects them
Taking away all their fears
Making good on her hard life
Praying her kids never have such strife
Part 12:
Take A Rain Check



Now is the time for me to say that
They lived in harmony
For all of eternity
That this story in its closing stages must end well
Happily ever after is how the stop should come
But that’s not how this ends
That is not how we finish
Forget about Kate
About how this was her fate
She didn’t help millions
With her loving heart
We have to return to the start
Forget about the execution
About Sam getting the lethal injection
Don’t think for one more second
About Jade with the rope
Or Gene laying next to the soap
Quit thinking about Stan
Smashed into the tree
Or Sam in the penitentiary
Take everything back
Sam’s second chance
Alexis and her skirt
And how they were all hurt
The supposed rape
The confession tape
Don’t fret and don’t frown
Don’t get sad and don’t get down
Take your mind to a better place
A baseball game
A motocross race
A gentle rain
A cottage in the middle of Maine
Don’t concern yourself with things so dark
Look to the stars and hear the angels hark
Not for one second should you feel sad
For this fallen man
This conquered Dad
Because none of this happened
For Sam, not one second you should ever mourn
For he was aborted, he was never born