[00:01.22]Richard Ramirez Died Today Of Natural Causes - Sun Kil Moon
[00:13.36]Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes
[00:16.30]Got amped up on speed and broke into houses
[00:19.30]Bludgeoned people to death wrote shit on their skin and left them
[00:22.86]They finally got and he went to San Quentin
[00:25.48]His last murder was south of San Francisco
[00:28.23]A guy named Peter Pan from the town of San Mateo
[00:31.48]The little girl in the tenderloin was his first
[00:34.29]And in the laundry room he took a doll from her fist
[00:37.30]His last days were at the Bristol hotel
[00:40.17]Was reading Night Stalker when I went and rang the bell
[00:43.42]The doorman buzzed, said, you’re just like them all
[00:46.17]Gave me a key and a black cat led me down the hall
[00:49.24]Had a flight today from Boston to Cleveland
[00:52.17]Got a death in the family gotta do some grieving
[00:55.17]Lost a relative and it’s eating me up
[00:58.11]And I make them real bad and I need a little love
[01:01.04]Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes
[01:03.79]These things mark time and make us pause
[01:06.98]And think about we were kids scared of taps on the window
[01:09.92]What’s under the bed and what’s under the pillow
[01:12.86]And the Jim Jones massacre got in our heads
[01:15.89]And the TV headlines Elvis Presley's dead
[01:18.71]And the Ayatollah Khomenei hostages
[01:21.58]And Ronald Reagan dodging bullets
[01:24.64]One day I'm gonna stroll through the old neighborhood
[01:27.71]Rick Stan's my age, still lives with his mom
[01:30.71]When he’s not in jail from innocent stalking
[01:33.64]Writing bad checks and cocaine charges
[01:36.58]Mark Denton had such a beautiful smile
[01:39.21]Always sat on the porch passing the time
[01:42.27]And drinking a beer and smoking a pack
[01:45.21]Until one day poor Mark had a heart attack
[01:48.46]My friend Ben's got a good job as an electrician
[01:51.21]Sister married the poor shark Jim Evans
[01:54.14]And my next door neighbors whom I love so
[01:56.65]And they love me too, but they passed long ago
[01:59.71]And if you walk just a few blocks down Stahl
[02:02.83]There's a house that was the scariest of them all
[02:05.58]A cute little palm with a sign "for sale"
[02:08.46]But those Sexton’s kids, life was hell
[02:11.39]And I’m telling the truth and if you don't believe
[02:14.21]Pick up Lowell Cauffiel’s House of Secrets
[02:17.26]Had to fly from Cleveland to SFO
[02:20.26]I got 3 months off until my next show
[02:23.01]Gonna spend time with my girl
[02:25.07]Make a record this summer
[02:26.63]Fix my kitchen up and hire a plumber
[02:29.26]The headlines change so rapidly
[02:31.88]Then I came to the studio to work on something pretty
[02:35.26]Then I saw the news on James Gandolfini
[02:37.94]While I was eating ramen and drinking green tea
[02:40.88]The Soprano's guy died at 51
[02:43.57]That’s the same age as the guy
[02:45.51]Who’s coming to play drums
[02:46.82]I don't like this getting older stuff
[02:49.69]Havin' to pee 50 times a day is bad enough
[02:52.44]Got a naggin’ prostate and I got a bad back
[02:55.63]And when I fuck too much I feel like I'm gonna have a heart attack
[02:59.26]I woke up today I saw the headlines
[03:01.88]An airline crashed and 2 people died
[03:04.44]And I'm at a barbecue in San Rafael
[03:07.38]And everybody's drunk and feelin' pretty well
[03:10.32]At 53 years Richard Ramirez died
[03:13.19]But in ‘83 he was very much alive
[03:16.32]He was the scariest killer in the band
[03:19.01]He had a pentagram in the center of his hand
[03:34.06]And everybody remember the paranoia
[03:36.63]When he stalked the suburbs of Southern California
[03:40.01]And everybody will remember where they were
[03:42.82]When they finally caught the Night Stalker
[03:45.56]And I remember just where I was
[03:48.38]When Richard Ramirez died of natural causes
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