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Incident On Stock Island

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I was workin' in this cabinet shop on Stock Island Listenin' to the new Aaron Neville tape It was one of those sticky hot summer days Suddenly I hear loud, angry voices just outside the window "Kenny, hold up! Don't do this!" Kenny sayin', "That motherfucker says I cheated him!" Kenny and his brother Vince come flyin' through the window Eyes blazin' out of control Kenny's runnin' to the rear of the shop with Vince right behind him Screamin', "Stop, Kenny! Stop!" Kenny crashes into the office and jumps on Franklin He's an electrician we share shop space with And they're all screamin' Vince physically restrains his brother and they both leave the office Kenny's beside himself with anger Vince says, "Next time, I'm gonna let him kick Franklin's ass!" Kenny is still hot, punches out a couple of cabinets Vince takes Kenny for a ride in his pickup to cool him off Half hour later, Franklin's gettin' into his step van When Kenny walks up and begins to apologize for goin' off earlier Vince and I are watchin' from about thirty feet away Out in the hot, tropical sun Now, I can't hear what Kenny's sayin' But I can tell by his body language that he's getting upset Franklin starts sayin', "Fuck you, Kenny, fuck you!" And then Franklin lets the clutch out a bit and pulls up a few feet And says, "Fuck you, Kenny, fuck you!" And I say to Vince, "Why don't he just drive on away?" Kenny reaches up in Franklin's truck, grabs him by the shirt And Franklin is still sayin', "Fuck you, Kenny!" And Kenny pulls Franklin out of his truck And slams him down in the dirt And Kenny blasts Franklin three or four very hard hooks to the head And Franklin's gettin' up, but Kenny throws an uppercut That has "Hospital" written all over it Yeah, it had "Hospital" written all over it Kenny stops and realizes how bad all this is And says, "Fuck this shit," gets in his truck and leaves And Franklin, his face is startin' to swell up like an eggplant And he walks past me and Vince and says, "Thanks a lot, you dickheads" And I still can't figure out why he didn't just drive on away So I get some ice for Franklin's face And he calls the cops and we all have to give statements And I wasn't proud of any of us