Dicen que en boca cerrada no entran moscas, que tres son multitud y que donde caben dos caben tres. Que iban dos y se cayó el del medio, que todo lo que entra sale y todo lo compartido es más divertido. Se dice que hay tres tristes tigres comiendo trigo en un trigal, una aguja en un pajar y ciento volando; y como bien dijo Herodes oídos sordos. Dicen que había tres cerditos y tres casas y que soplando, soplando desnudaron a los tres mosqueteros y los convirtieron en geishas. Dicen, también, que dos son equilibrio y que con tres la balanza se balancea, aunque no hay mal que por bien no venga porque más vale prevenir que curar. Sin embargo que más da,si todo lo sube;baja, todo lo que empieza termina y todo lo olvidado,algún día se recordará.
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night. Enter patty valentine from the upper hall, she sees the bartender in a pool of blood. Cries out, my god, they killed them all! Here comes the story of the hurricane, the man the authorities came to blame for somethin that he never done. Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been the champion of the world.
Three bodies lyin there does patty see and another man named bello, movin around mysteriously. I didnt do it, he says, and he throws up his hands. I was only robbin the register,I hope you understand. I saw them leavin, he says, and he stops one of us had better call up the cops. And so patty calls the cops and they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin in the hot new jersey night.
Meanwhile, far away in another part of town Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are drivin around. Number one contender for the middleweight crown. Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down. When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road just like the time before and the time before that. In paterson thats just the way things go. If you're black you might as well not show up on the street less you wanna draw the heat.
Alfred bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops. Him and arthur dexter bradley were just out prowlin around. He said, I saw two men runnin out,they looked like middleweights, they jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates and miss patty valentine just nodded her head. Cop said, wait a minute, boys, this ones not dead so they took him to the infirmary and though this man could hardly see. They told him that he could identify the guilty men.
Four in the mornin and they haul rubin in, take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs.The wounded man looks up through his one dyin eye says, what you bring him in here for? he aint the guy!
Four months later, the ghettos are in flame. Rubins in south america, fightin for his name while arthur dexter bradleys still in the robbery game and the cops are puttin the screws to him, lookin for somebody to blame. Remember that murder that happened in a bar?Remember you said you saw the getaway car? You think youd like to play ball with the law?Think it might-a been that fighter that you saw runnin that night? Dont forget that you are white.
Arthur dexter bradley said, Im really not sure. Cops said, a poor boy like you could use a break we got you for the motel job and were talkin to your friend bello. Now you dont want have to go back to jail, be a nice fellow. Youll be doin society a favor. That sonofabitch is brave and gettin braver. We want to put his ass in stir. We want to pin this triple murder on him. He aint no gentleman jim.
Rubin could take a man out with just one punch but he never did like to talk about it all that much. Its my work, hed say, and I do it for pay and when its over Id just as soon go on my way, up to some paradise where the trout streams flow and the air is nice and ride a horse along a trail. But then they took him to the jailhouse where they try to turn a man into a mouse.
All of rubins cards were marked in advance. The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance. The judge made rubins witnesses drunkards from the slums. To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum and to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger. No one doubted that he pulled the trigger and though they could not produce the gun. The d.a. said he was the one who did the deed and the all-white jury agreed.
Rubin carter was falsely tried. The crime was murder one, guess who testified? Bello and bradley and they both baldly lied and the newspapers, they all went along for the ride.How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand? To see him obviously framed couldnt help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise while rubin sits like buddha in a ten-foot cell. An innocent man in a living hell. thats the story of the hurricane, but it wont be over till they clear his name and give him back the time hes done. Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been the champion of the world.
Think you're real but you're fake. Think you're deep but you're shallow. You've become, what you hate. Now you're lost, just a shadow so we pull your strings. It makes no sense that you act like you're better. You can say these things to your so-called friends and they just might think you're clever.
Everything you say, everything you do is freaking me out. You know we used to be the same, Who the hell are you? Then I swear I thought I knew you but all that was yesterday. And now you turn it around, what's that about? Because you are freaking me out.
- ¿Soy un bicho raro? - Lo ves, yo oigo voces en la cabeza y es a tí a quien le preocupa ser un bicho raro. - ¿Que ocurre? - Ya no tengo fuerzas, ni voluntad para manternerme alejado de tí. - No te alejes
En el mundo al reves yo te odio. Te odiaría tanto que te mataría sin pensarlo dos veces, te haria pasarlo lo peor posible, que lloraras por mi a todas horas y que tu vida fuera un verdadero infierno por mi absurda existencia, te desearía todo lo peor y cuanto mas lejos estuvieras mejor. En el mundo al revés no me acordaria de ti ni un minuto. Pero claro, solo en el mundo al revés.
"Más aún, jamás había tenido intención de quererle. Había una cosa que sabía a ciencia cierta, lo sabía en el fondo del estómago y en el tuétano de los huesos, lo sabía de la cabeza a los pies, lo sabía en la hondura de mi pecho vacío… el amor concede a los demás el poder para destruirte."
Abusa de la fiesta hasta que se te reviente el vestido. Vive todos los días, de domingo a domingo. Quiere a la gente buena y a la mala mírala pero de lejos. No te canses nunca de perseguir lo que más quieres. No seas ni rencoroso ni liante. Abusa de toda la diversión que te ofrece. Sonríe a los días negros, a los rosas y a los de mucho calor. Ve lo más lejos posible. Encuentra al amor de tu vida. Conoce a algún cabrón. Piensa antes de actuar. No seas ignorante. Sé torpe. Sé fuerte. Crece, pero para dentro.
