Sun Kil Moon - Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes
| Artist | : Sun Kil Moon |
| Title | : Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes |
| Album | : Benji (2014) |
| Label | : CALDO VERDE |
| Release date | : February 11, 2014 |
| Duration | : 05:35 |
| Format | : MP3 |
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Sun Kil Moon - Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes Lyrics
Got amped up on speed and broke into houses
Butchered people to death and wrote shit on their skin
And left them, finally got him and he went to San Quentin
His last murder was south of San Francisco
Guy named Peter Pan from the town of San Mateo
The little girl on the Tenderloin was his first
And in the laundry room he took a doll from her fist
His last days were at the Bristol hotel
I was reading night stalker when I went and rang the bell
door man buzzed, said, just like em' all
gave me a key and a black cat led me down the hall
had a flight today from boston to cleveland
got a death in the family gotta do some grieving
lost a relative and it's eating me up
And I'm aching real bad and i need a little love
Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes
These things mark time and make us pause
Think about we were kids scared of taps on the window
What’s under the bed and what’s under the pillow
And the jim jones massacre got in our heads
And the TV headlines elvis presley's dead
And the ayatollah who committed hostages
and ronald regan dodging bullets
and while I'm there i'm gonna stroll through the old neighborhood
rick stan's my age, still lives with his mom
When he’s not in jail from menacing stalking
Writing bad checks and cocaine charges
mark denton had such a beautiful smile
always sat on this porch passing the time
And drinking a beer and smoking a pack
Till one day poor mark had a heart attack
my friend ben's got a good job as an electrician
His sister married the pool shark Jim Evans
my next door neighbors who i love so
they love me too, but they passed long ago
and if you walk just a few blocks down Stahl
there's a house that's the scariest of them all
a cute little palm with a sign "for sale"
for those sexton kids, life was hell
but i know the truth and if you don't believe
pick up my old car, (?) secrets(?)
had to fly from cleveland but it's all full
got 3 months off til my next show
gonna spend time with my girl
Make a record this summer, fix my kitchen
up and hire a plumber
the headlines change so rapidly
Came to the studio to work on something pretty
and i saw the news on james gandolfini
While I was eating ramen and drinking green tea
The Sopranos guy died at 51
That’s the same age as the guy
Who’s coming to play the drums
i don't like this getting older stuff
havin' to pee 50 times a day is bad enough
got a naggin prostate and i got a bad back
and when i fuck too much i feel like i'm gonna have a heart attack
woke up today saw the headlines
and airline crashed and 2 people died
and i'm at a barbecue, in Santa Fe(?)
and everybody's drunk and feelin' pretty well
at 53 Richard Ramirez died but in 83 he was very much alive
he was the scariest killer in the bend
he had a pentagram in the center of his hand
And everybody remember the paranoia
When he stalked us up into Southern California
And everybody will remember where they were
When they finally caught the night stalker
And I remember just where I was
When Richard Ramirez died of natural causes
Butchered people to death and wrote shit on their skin
And left them, finally got him and he went to San Quentin
His last murder was south of San Francisco
Guy named Peter Pan from the town of San Mateo
The little girl on the Tenderloin was his first
And in the laundry room he took a doll from her fist
His last days were at the Bristol hotel
I was reading night stalker when I went and rang the bell
door man buzzed, said, just like em' all
gave me a key and a black cat led me down the hall
had a flight today from boston to cleveland
got a death in the family gotta do some grieving
lost a relative and it's eating me up
And I'm aching real bad and i need a little love
Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes
These things mark time and make us pause
Think about we were kids scared of taps on the window
What’s under the bed and what’s under the pillow
And the jim jones massacre got in our heads
And the TV headlines elvis presley's dead
And the ayatollah who committed hostages
and ronald regan dodging bullets
and while I'm there i'm gonna stroll through the old neighborhood
rick stan's my age, still lives with his mom
When he’s not in jail from menacing stalking
Writing bad checks and cocaine charges
mark denton had such a beautiful smile
always sat on this porch passing the time
And drinking a beer and smoking a pack
Till one day poor mark had a heart attack
my friend ben's got a good job as an electrician
His sister married the pool shark Jim Evans
my next door neighbors who i love so
they love me too, but they passed long ago
and if you walk just a few blocks down Stahl
there's a house that's the scariest of them all
a cute little palm with a sign "for sale"
for those sexton kids, life was hell
but i know the truth and if you don't believe
pick up my old car, (?) secrets(?)
had to fly from cleveland but it's all full
got 3 months off til my next show
gonna spend time with my girl
Make a record this summer, fix my kitchen
up and hire a plumber
the headlines change so rapidly
Came to the studio to work on something pretty
and i saw the news on james gandolfini
While I was eating ramen and drinking green tea
The Sopranos guy died at 51
That’s the same age as the guy
Who’s coming to play the drums
i don't like this getting older stuff
havin' to pee 50 times a day is bad enough
got a naggin prostate and i got a bad back
and when i fuck too much i feel like i'm gonna have a heart attack
woke up today saw the headlines
and airline crashed and 2 people died
and i'm at a barbecue, in Santa Fe(?)
and everybody's drunk and feelin' pretty well
at 53 Richard Ramirez died but in 83 he was very much alive
he was the scariest killer in the bend
he had a pentagram in the center of his hand
And everybody remember the paranoia
When he stalked us up into Southern California
And everybody will remember where they were
When they finally caught the night stalker
And I remember just where I was
When Richard Ramirez died of natural causes
