The Basketball Diaries movie - I Am Alone lyrics

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Song by Jim Carroll<br /><br>

"Bobby died of leukemia. He got it two years ago, but had such a strong body. He was always the best at sports that he kept<br>

biding it off. They gave him six months at first, then he turned to trick and got better, even got out for a while. Though it<br>

was a different person when you saw him. Then he went back in a year ago. Like his brother was telling me the line on his<br>

hospital chart had felt straight down, in a perfect angle. I looked at his body and it was death for the first time in my<br>

life. His face was thin and wrinkled, almost apelike. His hair just grey patches on his skull. He looked sixty years old and<br>

he was sixteen. I couldn't believe how skinny his arms were. It was like having the skeleton of someone you know put in front<br>

of you. I felt dazed out in the streets like I had just come out of a 4-hour movie I didn't understand. I thought about that<br>

face all night, and death."<br>

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