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Always Follow Through

ALWAYS FOLLOW THROUGH
By Roy Merritt

Remember ol' Joe Stalin I'm sure most of you do
A man of little compassion who would always follow through
So I guess he's an inspiration in some twisted perverted way
And I guess it's true so very true every mad dog has his day

It's something to consider I guess, something not quite defined
So don't go just giving up keep that red tyrant in mine
Yes my friend that's a must that's what you have to do
Do like ol' Uncle Joe and always follow through

Leon Trotsky he needed killing, but was living so far away
And Uncle Joe was perplexed with the distance of his prey
Yes he surely needed killing REVISIONIST, REBEL, SPY
Now the problem before him was for some killer to apply

And so he came up with Jackson though Spanish for a fact
He was the one to do it with a mountain climber's ax
And so it finally came off Joe did what he had to do
That's something to admire I guess a man who follows through

It's been like that throughout history from Caesar to the Czars
Dictators aplenty the equal of the shining stars
These men of frightful menace willing to put you to the sword
And carry out any sentence whether simple man or lord

It's hard to imagine however, hard to comprehend
The sheer audacity of like-minded men
And the greater the villain, the worse that you've knew
Seems to have the greatest capacity to always follow through

There's a lesson here though such lessons might well malign
The thoughts of goodness you've had beaten into your mind 
Perhaps it's just persistence that these villains so possessed
I'm sure there's knowledge about it that would to this attest

I'd hate to think otherwise I'd hate to think I'm just a fool
That in order to be so inclined one has to be a ghoul
To have the heart to do what one must surely do
And always, yes always, always follow through

Copyright © Roy Merritt | Year Posted 2016

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