| When something beautiful dies
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| People turn sideways their eyes
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| One round of applause for the dollar bill doldrums
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| Two for the bankrupt distributors
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| Three for the folding indies
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| Four for the fallen famous
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| Five for the lack of support
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| Six for the millions of kids who missed the mid nineties
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| Seven for the rappers telling me «rap is dead»
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| Selling out
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| In their petticoats
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| With their petty drama
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| Bourgeois fear
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| From the rebels who once screamed in our ears
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| About money and guns
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| About politics
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| Wonder where they’ll go?
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| Will they ever try to dig themselves right out of the comfort of their own
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| homes?
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| When a life implodes fragments flow deep into the black
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| Into the forgotten
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| Swallowed whole
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| In a landslide of kudos that turned to — who knows?
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| What a shame
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| To be taken
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| Right into the grave
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| By the devil and his henchmen
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| The same ones that took his pension
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| And left him in a grave defenseless
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| Not to mention
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| No attention to the messes
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| Just a box-set
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| Sitting next to a Smith and Wesson
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| Fingerprints still lingering on trigger metal
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| Heavy metal on a record spinning
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| «It's the end of your era I tell you!»
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| His publicist screams
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| On a warped tape answering machine
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| From the eighty’s
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| Silver lining never came
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| The defining moments fade
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| With radio play
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| Put away
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| Any stray
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| Bullet in your brain
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| Get it ready for that long play
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| When something beautiful dies
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| People turn sideways their eyes
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| When something beautiful dies
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| People turn sideways their eyes
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| When something beautiful dies
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| People turn sideways their eyes
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| When something beautiful dies
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| A cry is raised to the skies
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| Every day something beautiful dies
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| And nobody cries for the swatted flies
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| Because they lingered around insignificant
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| Living just distant of people’s eyes
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| Disgusting Vultures
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| Circling around the bodies of my fallen heroes
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| Making jigsaw puzzles out of bones
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| While lilacs limp from the stench as flesh erodes
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| No need to worry about packing bags Julius
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| Maggots don’t care if you’re dressed
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| Your mother’s gone
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| And the suit don’t fit
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| A 9 millimeter’s gonna be your last kiss
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| And no one’s gonna be there when you take a final breath
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| And even though you want to be remembered as an übermensch
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| It’s less
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| It’s less than ashes in the sea
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| It’s less than a fresh coat of makeup on your gray face at a wake with a
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| catholic priest
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| It’s less than heaven
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| Less than irrelevant
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| Less than the most negative segment
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| That you could even conjure up in your vast imagination
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| It’s tasteless
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| It’s dirt
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| It’s rotting organs
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| It’s worms
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| And the perfect sounds are drowned out by the ground now
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| By the cries of the few and far between
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| By the record labels that are capitalizing on dreams
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| And they’ll repackage you as deluxe
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| And they’ll romanticize your death grunts
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| But the dust on the dollar bin gatefold sleeve just
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| Screams that nobody gave a fuck
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| People turn sideways their eyes
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| When something beautiful dies
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| People turn sideways their eyes
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| When something beautiful dies
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| A cry is raised to the skies |