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1998

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Wystone Clinics
1974
Father’s talking shit
Mother fucker slammed the door
Hit the streets running
Cannot take it anymore
In the reins of a train,
I cuddle on the floor.
In the apartment next door and
Sleeping here for free
Little kid sitting in the shooting gallery
Set your self up
But in the system it’s a raid
Oh this is what you want
Not the way, what they fucking say

Hanging out with sid and a kid in the U.S.A.
Sidney Sidney in the U.S.A.

Lower east side
1976
Who’s got the dope
And who’s gonna doing trips?
Should i call a loser all for a fix
Rippen off some lady
Just to avoid from gettin sick
Well I life moves slow
When you got nowhere to go
What the fuck happen to your son all alone
Is he coming over?
Is he coming home?
Oh momma’s disappointed,
Waiting’ by the phone

Hanging out with sid and a kid in the U.S.A.
Sidney Sidney in the U.S.A.

Same fucking shit
1998

And mother fuckers that he hates
Hates the fucking people,
But they cannot see straight
Who got the crack,
Gonna seal his fate.
In the apartment next door
And sleeping here for free
Little kid sitting in the shooting gallery
Set your self up
But in the system it’s a raid
Oh this is what you want
I don't care, what they fucking say

Hanging out with sid and a kid in the U.S.A.
Sidney Sidney in the U.S.A.

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kpizzle On Nov 25, 2001

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by gabbagabbaheygirl

15y ago

Read Dee Dee Ramone's autobiography, "Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones", and tell me this isn't about him.

Dee Dee's father was an American soldier who met Dee Dee's mother in Germany. He was an alcoholic and, according to the book, a pretty mean mother fucker as this song says. Also Dee Dee lived in Whitestone and Queens. There's also an entire chapter in his book chronicling the summer he ran away as a teenager. Then in 1976, Dee Dee lived in the Lower East Side. By this time he was a total dope fiend, going out to cop heroin every day with his various junkie friends in New York. I think the lines "Is he coming over?/ Is he coming home?/ Oh momma's disappointed/ Waiting by the phone" is about his relationship with his mother, when he'd lived with her as a young adult and would come home in the morning from being out all night and they had crazy arguments. I think the last verse is about Dee Dee struggling to stay off methadone and dope at the end of his life.

As for the chorus it's just talking about him hanging out with Sid Vicious and "a kid" in New York, not sure who "a kid" is, perhaps Sid's infamous girlfriend Nancy Spungen, because in his book Dee Dee mentions several times how Nancy was younger than all the other addicts living in New York and was kind of annoying. Or maybe it's a reference to Dee Dee himself, cuz he was notoriously childish...

Also I doubt this is about Sid Vicous' life because he was living in England in 1974 and 1976.

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by slumpywpg 3y ago

11 years later...\r\n\r\nYou\'re not wrong, but I think the song is about both of them. in 76 the Ramones toured the UK, where Dee Dee famously hung out (and did dope) with Sid Vicious, hence "Hanging out with Sid yet again" sid being an allusion to both Sid Vicious and heroin. Dee Dee was still hanging out with "Sid" in 1998, literally living at the Chelsea Hotel in the suite Sid allegedly killed Nancy Spungen in. He wrote a horror novel while living there called "Chelsea Horror Hotel"