A Menace To The Planet

by Rob Morris

(Set to the tune of Kenny Rogers 'Coward Of The County')

Everyone considered her

A menace to the planet

She'd rarely done a single thing to prove the people wrong

Her mama named her Kaede

But folks called her Lucy The Devil

I gambled part of my heart

They were reading Kaede wrong

She wasn't even ten years old

When the bullies got what they pushed for

I became her friend cause she looked like she needed one

What went wrong I still don't know

but my family lay in pieces

"You shouldn't be a liar" she said

I just said "You have to stop."

And inside her, a voice said :

"Promise me, Lucy, not to

let the bastards live;

Kill them all

or make their kids like us

Eliminate the weak,

and then you won't be the freak;

Now is the time we make our stand

There's no place for us in the world of man."

Time follows a funny path; And again I saw Kaede;

Each with eyes that didn't recall just how things fell apart

But despite just trying to live our lives

Kakuzawa's forces came calling

They burst in through our doors

And there was an army of them

Kaede gave me to Yuka; the house she left on Nana

I know she heard my hateful words when my memories returned

Though she's the one got captured; The Kakuzawas got some schoolin'

But as the old man made his foolish God-pitch, she heard these words again :

"Promise me, Lucy, not to

let the bastards live;

Kill them all

or make their kids like us

Eliminate the weak,

and then you won't be the freak;

Now is the time we make our stand

There's no place for us in the world of man."

The Special Ops just laughed at her and readied their attack craft

But her sights were straight on me as I stared with hateful eyes

That old attack craft shriveled up; and so did part of Kaede

You see I told her very flatly, that I could not forgive

Two gunshot wounds on me; and all the hurt she'd suffered

She decided to end this world; to draw this veil of tears

But instead she chose to heal me

Though it took all she had from her

She said 'Leave My Family Alone!' as the final soldier fell

And then she told off someone else :

"I promised myself,

not to let the monsters live;

Kill them all even if they're deep inside

I found the place I seek

where we're all a bunch of freaks;

Now, Kouta, keep your promise, as we planned

and come back to see me, cause you're still my man."

Everyone considered her a menace to the planet...