Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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My
Colleen used to call me
while I was here,
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not going on no more.
My dad would answer and say,
what do you want, girl?
And she'd say,
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can I take a bath with mom?
my son ain't here.
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Send her home, shut the door,
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and we'd all laugh.
down the street,
glowing and smiling
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how she got Paul McCartney's
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autograph.
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Her brain worked a little slower
than the others in hell.
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She wore thick rimmed glasses.
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She took a different bus to school
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and was in different kind of classes.
and started taking her welfare payments.
and helped withdraw savings
that had been put away for her,
he did a little time in court
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So many years later
He's doing life in a Florida penitentiary
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both of them for earnin'
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My Colleen, My Colleen
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My Colleen, My Colleen
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My Colleen, My Colleen, My Colleen
She wanted love like anyone
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else
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Magdalene, Magdalene, Magdalene
She had dreams like any
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one else
My friend Brett, my friend Brett,
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He liked to play the guitar
of playing bar chords
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With two fingers spreading his index
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and middle fingers really far apart
One day a band dragged us a drop
like a deer was shot
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and was flippin' around like a fish.
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He had an aneurysm triggered in a nerve from his hand,
from the strain that he was puttin' on it.
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I went to see him in Ohio,
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he had a horseshoe -shaped
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scar in his scalp
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He played pool like we did in our teens
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and he still wore bell -bottom jeans
In 99 I was on tour in Sweden
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and I called home
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something you should know
He really should send a card
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to his mom and dad
I looked out at the snow
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Feeling somewhere between
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happy and sad
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My friend Brad, my friend Brad
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My friend Brad, my friend Brad,
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He had a wife and a son
My friend Brad, my friend
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Brad, my friend Brad
He just liked to play guitar
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and he never did any
My grandma, my grandma, my grandma, my grandma,
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my grandma, my grandma
Before she passed away
I'd go and visit her at
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when I was small
I couldn't bear the pain she was in
One day I was just fuckin' around
when I put it in reverse
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an d I was free fallin'
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I re member the car rollin' backwards,
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my heart was poundin'
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and I passed out
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Another car was com
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in' down the street
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and I told them both
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an d I got knocked out
My grandma, my grandma, my grandma,
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my grandma, my grandma, my grandma
First time I met her she lived in L
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.A., I think it was Huntington Park
I made friends with a kid named Marceau
and another kid named
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Cyrus Hong
We'd go downtown to get ice cream
and eat french fries with the pigeons
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And talk to the handicapped
vets from Vietnam
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It was the first time I saw
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or a palm tree, or a lizard.
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I saw the ocean,
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or heard David Bowie's
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and I saw the movie Benji
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and the Field.
My grandma, my grandma,
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my grandma, my grandma,
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My grandma, my grandma, my grandma,
she met a man from California
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who treated her really nice.
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My grandma, my grandma, my grandma,
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my grandma, my grandma,
my grandma was diagnosed at 62.
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with you the kids stepped up to the plate
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way through
applause applause applause
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applause applause
Are you guys doing all right,
or are losing patience,
you're losing patience?
You're doing all right?
Are you tired of this
middle -aged ramblings of mine?
Because I'm going to do a
lot more of them.
This is, I don't know why
I'm obsessed with stabbing lately,
I guess I was watching True Detective.
Did you guys watch True Detective?
Each episode, I was mesmerized by that,
I was mesmerized by that.
I watched each episode four times except for the last
episode was fucking horrible, I watched that once.
I did watch that twice
just to make sure it was as bad as I
thought it was,
but Woody Harrelson's Mistress is just,
oh my god, Jesus Christ, fuck.
My girlfriend was like, yeah,
I know why you want to watch this four times,
but wow, that was a really
good series.
When that ended, I was just like,
fuck, now what am I going to do now?
I'm going to go on tour
and all this boring sitting
backstage shit.
Sitting around on planes,
walking around the block
looking at graffiti.
This song is about a guy who died last
year.
His name was Richard Ramirez.
He was a serial killer in California.
Stabbed a lot of people.
How did you like the song?
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