Punkpoëet Jim Caroll overleden
14 september 2009Jim Caroll is dood. De Amerikaanse punkrocker, dichter en schrijver is vrijdag overleden aan een hartaanval in zijn woonplaats New York. Hij werd 60 jaar. Gek genoeg werd Caroll vooral bekend met zijn mooi verfilmde boek The Basketball Diaries (met DiCaprio in een glansrol) en de bijbehorende soundtrack. Ik draaide die soundtrack graag, als barman. All the people who died. Jim is among them. Rust in vrede, Jim.
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
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they 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 two more friends of mine
Two more friends that died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died
Mary took a dry dive from a 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 brother
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died
Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys’ Club roof
Tony thought that his rage was just some goof
But Herbie sure gave Tony some bitchen proof
“Hey,” Herbie said, “Tony, can you fly?”
But Tony couldn’t fly, Tony died
And Eddie, still alive and I miss you more then all the others I salute you brother…
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Cheers G.
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