People Who Died  Jim Carroll

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Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old, fell from the roof on East Two-nine

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Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug, on 26 reds and a bottle of wine
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Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old, he looked like 65 when he died, he was a friend of mine


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Those are people who died, died, those are people who died, died
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Those are people who died, died, those are people who died, died
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They were all my friends, and they died

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G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten, so they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
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Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head, Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed
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They were two more friends of mine, two more friends that died

 

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Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room, Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs
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Judy jumped in front of a subway train, Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
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And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others, and I salute you brother

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Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof, Tony thought that his rage was just some goof
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But Herbie sure gave Tony some, some bitchen proof,

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"Hey," Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?" But Tony couldn't fly . . . Tony died

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Brian got busted on a narco rap, he beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers
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He said, hey, I know it's dangerous, but it sure beats Riker's
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But the next day he got offed, by the very same bikers

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Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old, fell from the roof on East Two-nine

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Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug, on 26 reds and a bottle of wine
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Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old, he looked like 65 when he died, he was a friend of mine

 

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G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten, so they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
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Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head, Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed
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They were two more friends of mine, I miss 'em--they died

 

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Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room, Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs
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Judy jumped in front of a subway train, Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
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And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others, this song is for you, my brother

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