The Basketball Diaries movie - People Who Died lyrics

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Song by Jim Carroll<br /><br>

Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old<br>

Fell from the roof on East Two-nine<br>

Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug<br>

On 26 reds and a bottle of wine<br>

Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old<br>

He looked like 65 when he died<br>

He was a friend of mine<br>

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Those are people who died, died<br>

They were all my friends, and they died<br>

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G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten<br>

So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan<br>

Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head<br>

Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed<br>

They were two more friends of mine<br>

Two more friends that died<br>

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Those are people who died, died<br>

They were all my friends, and they died<br>

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Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room<br>

Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs<br>

Judy jumped in front of a subway train<br>

Eddie got slit in the jugular vein<br>

And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others<br>

And I salute you brother<br>

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Those are people who died, died<br>

They were all my friends, and they died<br>

<br>

Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof<br>

Tony thought that his rage was just some goof<br>

But Herbie sure gave Tony some bitchen proof<br>

"Hey," Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?"<br>

But Tony couldn't fly, Tony died<br>

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Those are people who died, died<br>

They were all my friends, and they died<br>

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Brian got busted on a narco rap<br>

He beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers<br>

He said, "Hey, I know it's dangerous, but it sure beats Riker's"<br>

But the next day he got offed by the very same bikers<br>

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Those are people who died, died<br>

They were all my friends, and they died<br>

<br>

Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old<br>

Fell from the roof on East Two-nine<br>

Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug<br>

On 26 reds and a bottle of wine<br>

Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old<br>

He looked like 65 when he died<br>

He was a friend of mine<br>

<br>

Those are people who died, died<br>

They were all my friends, and they died<br>

<br>

G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten<br>

So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan<br>

Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head<br>

Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed<br>

They were two more friends of mine<br>

Two more friends that died<br>

<br>

Those are people who died, died<br>

They were all my friends, and they died<br>

<br>

Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room<br>

Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs<br>

Judy jumped in front of a subway train<br>

Eddie got slit in the jugular vein<br>

And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others<br>

And I salute you brother<br>

<br>

Those are people who died, died<br>

They were all my friends, and they died<br>

<br>

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