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You don't worry about tomorrow anymore, cause you're dead.
Or does anything still echo? Is there any trace left?
Well, I know she still remembers, she sleeps with your picture by her bed.
They shaved your face and they washed your hair clean,
You were wearing the jacket that I met you in.
Well, how could I not have guessed?
She would fall in love with the first boy she kissed in a casket?
God damn it.
God damn, I miss my dead friend.
We buried your body into the hard Oklahoma ground.
John Paul Allison, the orphan boy Pope.
Now she waits for you to haunt her,
She sleeps with your ghost at night in bed.
When you died, you were only twenty-six,
The most real person that I've ever met.
Well, how could I not have guessed?
She would fall in love with the first boy she kissed in a casket?
God damn it.
God damn, I miss my dead friend.
Your cold dead hands, your cold dead lips,
Your cold dead heart, your cold dead kiss.
Well, how could I not have guessed?
She would fall in love with the first boy she kissed in a casket?
God damn it.
God damn, I miss my dead friend.
Or does anything still echo? Is there any trace left?
Well, I know she still remembers, she sleeps with your picture by her bed.
They shaved your face and they washed your hair clean,
You were wearing the jacket that I met you in.
She would fall in love with the first boy she kissed in a casket?
God damn it.
God damn, I miss my dead friend.
John Paul Allison, the orphan boy Pope.
Now she waits for you to haunt her,
She sleeps with your ghost at night in bed.
When you died, you were only twenty-six,
The most real person that I've ever met.
She would fall in love with the first boy she kissed in a casket?
God damn it.
God damn, I miss my dead friend.
Your cold dead heart, your cold dead kiss.
She would fall in love with the first boy she kissed in a casket?
God damn it.
God damn, I miss my dead friend.
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I listened to this song for the first time right around the news was announced that one of my friends had just died---this song came out at the perfect time for a moment of much needed healing
Brilliant song off of a great new album
After a few listens to this song, it almost seems to me like a continuation or linked to the song 'Because of the shame' of White Crosses. Just a thought.
I thought that might be the case the first couple times I heard this song. But the deceased in this one seems to be a guy, based on the line: "They shaved your face and they washed your hair clean". 'Because of the Shame' was about a girl. It sounds like the female character in this song is still alive and was either the lover, or just a good friend of the guy who died and who didn't realize how much she loved him until he was gone.
I thought that might be the case the first couple times I heard this song. But the deceased in this one seems to be a guy, based on the line: "They shaved your face and they washed your hair clean". 'Because of the Shame' was about a girl. It sounds like the female character in this song is still alive and was either the lover, or just a good friend of the guy who died and who didn't realize how much she loved him until he was gone.
@Turtlefox nope, the two songs are about two different people.
@Turtlefox nope, the two songs are about two different people.
Wonder if the Andrew Jackson Jihad song "Dead Best Friend" is a response to this song.
The Dead Friend is John Paul Allison. Because of the shame is about C.C. Walker, a girl.
The Dead Friend was a roadie for when Against Me were on tour, and the dude was really good friend to Laura Jane Grace.