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All My Heroes Were Junkies
Ellis Paul
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In 1968, he did shots with The Doors at the Whisky a Go Go
It was on one of them hot Hollywood summer nights
He says, "Jimi came in tight leather slacks
It was hot as hell, but we were drinking Jack
His eyes were like quarters 'round the black
When he stepped under the stage lights
And you know me," he says, "I had pawned my only camera
I had no way to record these fleeting Kodak moments
That sprung to life each and every Saturday night
I was too far gone back then to have known it"
He says, "All my heroes were junkies
Now all my heroes are dead"
I say, "Hey Tony, consider yourself lucky
To be a junkie in a hospital bed"
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He says, "You know, Judy Garland never showed up
When I took my walk in the land of Oz
Though I copped it on a purple horse one morning
When he asked me why I was staggering
I said, "Because, because, because, because
The wizard never gave me no surgeon general's warning"
He says, "All my heroes were junkies
Now all my heroes are dead"
I say, "Hey Tony, consider yourself lucky
To be a junkie in a hospital bed"
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"Now who rolled a joint
When Bob Dylan got high with The Beatles?"
He says, "Who put my world on pins and needles?"
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On pins and needles
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He tells the nurses they should do something
With the ceiling in the rehab ward
Like paint a fresco to the late great Betty Ford
They come in and make their jokes
About pulling out all my power cords
He says, "Did you come up with something
I didn't already know?"
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All my heroes were junkies
Now all my heroes are dead
I say, "Hey Tony, you're lucky
To be a junkie in a hospital bed"
A junkie in a hospital bed
A junkie in a hospital bed
In a bed
Oh, in a bed
In a bed
A junkie in a hospital bed
Oh, in a bed
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A junkie in a hospital bed
Oh, in a bed
A junkie in a hospital bed
Oh, in a bed
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