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Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes |
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Got amped up on speed and broke into houses |
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Bludgeoned people to death and wrote *******t on their skin and left 'em |
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They finally got him and he went to San Quentin |
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His last murder was south of San Francisco |
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A guy named Peter Pan from the town of San Mateo |
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A little girl in the Tenderloin was his first |
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In the laundry room took a dollar from her fist |
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His last days were at the Bristol hotel |
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I was reading Night Stalker when I went and rang the bell |
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Door man buzzed me, said you're just like them all |
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Gave me a key and a black cat and led me down the hall |
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Had a flight today from Boston to Cleveland |
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Got a death in the family, gotta do some grieving |
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Lost a relative and it's eating me up |
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And I miss them real bad, I need a little love |
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Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes |
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These things mark time and make us pause |
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Think about when we were kids scared of taps on the window |
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What's under the bed and what's under the pillow |
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And the Jim Jones massacre got in our heads |
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And the TV headlines: "Elvis Presley is dead," |
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And the Ayatollah Khomeini hostages |
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And Ronald Reagen dodging bullets |
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While I'm there I'm gonna stroll through the old neighborhood |
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Rick Stan's my age and still lives with his mom |
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When he's not in jail from innocent stalking |
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Writing bad checks, and ******* charges |
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Mark Denton had such a beautiful smile |
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We always sat on his porch passing the time |
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And drinking a beer and smoking a pack |
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Until one day poor Mark had a heart attack |
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Friend Ben's got a good job as a electrician |
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Sister married the pool shark Jim Evans |
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My next door neighbors whom I love so |
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Loved me too but they passed long ago |
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And if you walk just a few blocks down Stahl |
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There's a house that was the scariest of them all |
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A cute little palm with a sign "For Sale." |
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But for those Sexton's kids' life was hell |
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And I'm telling the truth and if you don't believe |
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Pick up the Lowell Cauffiel's House of Secrets |
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Had to fly from Cleveland to SFO |
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Got 3 months off until my next show |
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Gonna spend time with my girl, make a record this summer |
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Fix my kitchen up and hire a plumber |
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The headlines change so rapidly |
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Then I came to the studio to work on something pretty |
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And I saw the news on James Gandolfini |
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While I was eating Ramen and drinking green tea |
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The Sopranos guy died at 51 |
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That's the same age as the guy who's coming to play drums |
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I don't like this getting older stuff |
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Having to pee fifty times a day is bad enough |
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Got a nagging prostate and I got a bad back |
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When I **** too much I feel like I'm gonna have a heart attack |
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I woke up today I saw the headlines |
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An airline cra*******ng, two people died |
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And I'm at a barbecue in San Rafael |
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And everybody's drunk and feeling pretty well |
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At fifty-three Richard Ramirez died but in '83 |
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He was very much alive |
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He was the scariest killer in the band |
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He had a pentagram in the center of his hand |
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And everybody remember the paranoia |
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When he stalked the suburbs of Southern California |
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And everybody will remember where they were |
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When they finally caught the Night Stalker |
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And I remember just where I was |
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When Richard Ramirez died of natural causes |
