Sun Kil Moon - Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes lyrics

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Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes

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 San Rafael

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

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