"People Who Died" ( Jim Carroll )
Teddy's sniffing glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two Nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 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
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they just died
G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam, he took a bullet in the head
Bobby O.D.'d on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine
Two more friends that died …
Mary took a dry dive from her hotel room
Bobby hung himself from a 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, my brother!
Repeat Refrain
Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof
Tony thought that his rage was just some goof
But Herbie sure gave Tony some bitchin’ proof
Hey, Herbie said, Tony… can you fly?
But Tony couldn't fly . . . Tony died
Repeat Refrain
Brian got busted on a narco rap
He beat the rap by ratting on some bikers
He said, hey, I know it's dangerous,
but it sure beats “Rikers”
But the next day he got offed
by the very same bikers
("Pleople who died" foi publicado em "Catholic Boy", ATCO 1980 )
Ps: ao longo da vida, para além da música e dos discos, Jim Carroll editou vários livros de poesia e prosa. A respectiva autobiografia conheceu dois volumes: "The Basketball Diaries" ( adaptado ao cinema em 1995 ) e "Forced entries, The Downtown Diaries". Escreveu ainda argumentos para o cinema e trabalhou com Ginsberg, Burroughs, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Lenny Kaye, Zappa, Lou Reed, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch...Morreu no passado dia 11. Tinha 60 anos.
