Incident on Stock Island

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