People Who Died Lyrics

People Who Died lyrics

"People Who Died"  by The Jim Carroll Band

 

 Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old

 fell from the roof on east two-nine

 Kathy was eleven when she pulled the plug

 ON 26 reds and a bottle of wine

 Bobby GOT lukemia, 14 years old

 he looked like 65 when he died

 he was a friend of mine

 

 REFRAIN:

 those are people who died, died

 those are people who died, died

 those are people WHO died, died

 they were all my friends

 they just died

 

 G-Berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten

 so they died of hepatitis in upper ManhattAn

 Sly in Vietnam, took a bullet in the head

 Bobby od'd on drano on the night that he was wed

 they were 2 more friends of mine

 Two more friends that died

 

 REFRAIN (SEE ABOVE)

 

 Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room

 Bobby hung himself from his cell in the tombs

 Judy jumped in front of a subway train

 Eddie got slit in the jugular vein

 and, Eddie, I miss you more than all the others

 and I salute you, brother/ this song is for you my brother (second round)

 

 REFRAIN

 

 Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof

 Tony thought that his rage was just some goof

 but Herbie sure gave Tony some, some bitchen proof

 Herbie said,"Tony, can you fly?"

 but Tony couldn't fly, Tony died

 

 REFRAIN

 

 Brian got busted on a narco rap

 he beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers

 he said,"Hey, I know it's dangerous,

 but it sure beats Riker's"

 but the next day he got off'd

 by the very same bikers

 

 REFRAIN

 

 REPEAT THROUGH "EDDIE"