Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes

Richard Ramirez died today of natural causes
 Got amped up on speed and broke into houses
 Bludgeoned people to death and wrote shit on their skin and left 'em
 They finally got him and he went to San Quentin
 His last murder was south of San Francisco
 A guy named Peter Pan from the town of San Mateo
 A little girl in the Tenderloin was his first
 In the laundry room, and took a dollar from her fist
 His last days were at the Bristol hotel
 I was reading Night Stalker when I went and rang the bell
 Doorman buzzed me, said, "You're just like them 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
 And think about when 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 is dead"
 And the Ayatollah Khomeini hostages
 And Ronald Reagan dodging bullets
 While I'm there, I'm gonna stroll through the old neighborhood
 Rick Stan's my age and still lives with his mom
 When he's not in jail for menacing or stalking
 Or writing bad checks or cocaine charges
 Mark Denton had such a beautiful smile
 We always sat on his porch passing the time
 And drinking a beer and smoking a pack
 Until 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
 And my next door neighbors whom I love so
 And they loved me too, but they passed long ago (long time ago)
 And if you walk just a few blocks down Stahl
 There's a house that was the scariest of them all
 A cute little palm with a sign, "For Sale"
 But those Sexton kids' life was hell
 And I'm telling the truth and if you don't believe
 Pick up Lowell Cauffiel's House of Secrets
 Had to fly from Cleveland to SFO
 Got three months off until 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
 Then I 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 drums
 I don't like this "getting older" stuff
 Having to pee 50 times a day is bad enough
 Got a nagging prostate and I got a bad back
 When I fuck too much, I feel like I'm gonna have a heart attack
 I woke up today, I saw the headlines
 An airline crashed, and two people died
 And I'm at a barbecue in San Rafael
 And everybody's drunk and feeling pretty well
 At 53, Richard Ramirez died
 But in '83, he was very much alive
 He was the scariest killer in the band
 He had a pentagram in the center of his hand
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 And everybody remember the paranoia
 When he stalked the suburbs of Southern California
 And everybody will remember where they were
 When they finally caught the Night Stalker
 And I'll remember just where I was
 When Richard Ramirez died of natural causes