Title: Honor Kills...a message for Kenny Freeman
Featuring: Jake Donovan
Date: May 5, 2015
Location: A space somewhere
You listen to me, Kenny. This is the best damn free advice you’re ever gonna get.
[Wait for it…]
[Wait. For. It.]
Stop
Just
Stop
Stop listening to those people
Stop caring what they think
Boos or cheers, it doesn’t matter
What you hear one day you prolly won’t hear the next
Start listing to the clock, Kenny.
Tick tock, tick tock
Tick.
Tock.
It’s the countdown on your career and it started the first day you stepped into the ring.
We all have that clock
And no one
No matter how long they fight
Can ever outrun the hands of time
You’ll never be as whole as you were yesterday
What we do beats the body down
Those people
They beat a soul down.
You listen to me damnit, I’m tryin’ ta help you
Save you in ways I could never save myself
I shouldn’t have walked away, shouldn’t have agreed to disagree
You don’t have all the facts, Kenny
All you have is optimism and a dream
Dreams ‘ill get you killed ‘round here
Optimism smashed beneath a steal chair and someone else’s fist
You have to stop Kenny
Stop being so naive
Stop buying into the fantasy that there are heroes and villains and that if you do the right thing people will actually give a damn.
They won’t
Not for long
Not for nearly long enough to truly matter
Can’t you see that they only want what you can give when you’re a novelty
Then their love shifts back to the monsters
To the destroyers who’d just as soon smash you through a table than wrestle you fair
The assholes who jump a guy in the back and try and break ‘em are the real heroes of DEFIANCE
And they are the only ones who ever truly get ahead
Look at the history
Look at the hate and the blood
Stop being so blind Kenny
Stop foolishly clinging to some crazy ideal of honor
Honor kills kid.
Trust me. I should know.
Honor.
Kills.
