Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes-Sun Kil Moon

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Mark Kozelek [00:13.577] Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes [00:16.816] Got amped up on speed and broke into houses [00:19.706] Bludgeoned people to death and wrote shit on their skin and left 'em [00:23.194] They finally got him and he went to San Quentin [00:25.763] His last murder was south of San Francisco [00:28.485] A guy named Peter Pan from the town of San Mateo [00:31.684] A little girl in the Tenderloin was his first [00:34.627] In the laundry room, and took a dollar from her fist [00:37.475] [00:37.873] His last days were at the Bristol hotel [00:40.662] I was reading Night Stalker when I went and rang the bell [00:43.747] Doorman buzzed me, said, "You're just like them all" [00:46.605] Gave me a key and a black cat led me down the hall [00:49.723] Had a flight today from Boston to Cleveland [00:52.566] Got a death in the family, gotta do some grieving [00:55.593] Lost a relative and it's eating me up [00:58.401] And I'm aching real bad and I need a little love [01:01.320] [01:01.438] Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes [01:04.536] These things mark time and make us pause [01:07.247] And think about when we were kids, scared of taps on the window [01:10.441] What's under the bed and what's under the pillow [01:13.313] And the Jim Jones massacre got in our heads [01:16.260] And the TV headlines: "Elvis Presley is dead" [01:19.269] And the Ayatollah Khomeini hostages [01:21.833] And Ronald Reagan dodging bullets [01:24.626] [01:25.102] While I'm there, I'm gonna stroll through the old neighborhood [01:28.205] Rick Stan's my age and still lives with his mom [01:31.003] When he's not in jail for menacing or stalking [01:34.083] Or writing bad checks or cocaine charges [01:36.931] Mark Denton had such a beautiful smile [01:39.703] We always sat on his porch passing the time [01:42.733] And drinking a beer and smoking a pack [01:45.673] Until one day poor Mark had a heart attack [01:48.664] My friend Ben's got a good job as a electrician [01:51.824] His sister married the pool shark, Jim Evans [01:54.850] My next door neighbors whom I love so [01:57.288] And they loved me too, but they passed long ago (Long time ago) [02:00.192] And if you walk just a few blocks down Stahl [02:03.263] There's a house that was the scariest of them all [02:06.059] A cute little palm with a sign, "For Sale" [02:09.003] But those Sexton kids' life was hell [02:11.858] And I'm telling the truth and if you don't believe [02:14.812] Pick up Lowell Cauffiel's House of Secrets [02:17.675] Had to fly from Cleveland to SFO [02:20.649] Got 3 months off until my next show [02:23.685] Gonna spend time with my girl, make a record this summer [02:27.066] Fix my kitchen up and hire a plumber [02:29.727] The headlines change so rapidly [02:32.450] Then I came to the studio to work on something pretty [02:35.543] And I saw the news on James Gandolfini [02:38.463] While I was eating Ramen and drinking green tea [02:41.313] The Sopranos guy died at 51 [02:43.961] That's the same age as the guy who's coming to play drums [02:47.229] I don't like this "getting older" stuff [02:49.897] Having to pee fifty times a day is bad enough [02:52.958] Got a nagging prostate and I got a bad back [02:56.031] When I **** too much, I feel like I'm gonna have a heart attack [02:59.723] I woke up today, I saw the headlines [03:02.003] An airline crashed, and two people died [03:04.701] And I'm at a barbecue in San Rafael [03:07.718] And everybody's drunk and feeling pretty well [03:10.786] At 53, Richard Ramirez died [03:13.620] But in '83, he was very much alive [03:16.648] He was the scariest killer in the band [03:19.432] He had a pentagram in the center of his hand [03:23.235] [03:34.104] And everybody remember the paranoia [03:37.094] When he stalked the suburbs of Southern California [03:40.260] And everybody will remember where they were [03:43.031] When they finally caught the Night Stalker [03:45.929] And I'll remember just where I was [03:48.874] When Richard Ramirez died of natural causes