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 He wasn't famous but I sure did love him

 I've got his picture in a little frame

 He lost his life to a big disease before it even had a name

 But there's so many more and I've lost count

 The hows and whys aren't important now

 All that matters is they came around

 And brightened up our lives

She was twenty one with her life ahead

You don't need to know her name

She breathed her last on the cold stone floor of a Hollywood arcade

But fate's right hand isn't always just

Puts a lot of pressure on your faith and trust

She was just a little girl, ain't that enough

To rage against the day

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 And how did we get so lucky

Targets on the rifle range

 Who makes the call and who gets to choose

Who gets to win and who gets to lose

 It's like a rolling dice in the belly of the blues

 And blues never fade away

Hey hey hey, colors run when the rain falls

 But blues never fade away

He shone so bright with a lust for life

Like the Sun King that he was

His passions hung upon his walls and were printed onto cloth

And for reasons I never understood

About the choices made between the bad and good

I've tried to figure out why

The pain never goes away

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 And there's marble markers and little white crosses

 Along the beaten path

 And I've spread their ashes on the wind

 And I miss John Lennon's laugh

[repeat chorus]