Fallen Famous - Ceschi

When something beautiful dies

People turn sideways their eyes

One round of applause for the dollar bill doldrums

Two for the bankrupt distributors

Three for the folding indies

Four for the fallen famous

Five for the lack of support

Six for the millions of kids who missed the mid nineties

Seven for the rappers telling me «rap is dead»

Selling out

In their petticoats

With their petty drama

Bourgeois fear

From the rebels who once screamed in our ears

About money and guns

About politics

Wonder where they’ll go?

Will they ever try to dig themselves right out of the comfort of their own

homes?

When a life implodes fragments flow deep into the black

Into the forgotten

Swallowed whole

In a landslide of kudos that turned to — who knows?

What a shame

To be taken

Right into the grave

By the devil and his henchmen

The same ones that took his pension

And left him in a grave defenseless

Not to mention

No attention to the messes

Just a box-set

Sitting next to a Smith and Wesson

Fingerprints still lingering on trigger metal

Heavy metal on a record spinning

«It's the end of your era I tell you!»

His publicist screams

On a warped tape answering machine

From the eighty’s

Silver lining never came

The defining moments fade

With radio play

Put away

Any stray

Bullet in your brain

Get it ready for that long play

When something beautiful dies

People turn sideways their eyes

When something beautiful dies

People turn sideways their eyes

When something beautiful dies

People turn sideways their eyes

When something beautiful dies

A cry is raised to the skies

Every day something beautiful dies

And nobody cries for the swatted flies

Because they lingered around insignificant

Living just distant of people’s eyes

Disgusting Vultures

Circling around the bodies of my fallen heroes

Making jigsaw puzzles out of bones

While lilacs limp from the stench as flesh erodes

No need to worry about packing bags Julius

Maggots don’t care if you’re dressed

Your mother’s gone

And the suit don’t fit

A 9 millimeter’s gonna be your last kiss

And no one’s gonna be there when you take a final breath

And even though you want to be remembered as an übermensch

It’s less

It’s less than ashes in the sea

It’s less than a fresh coat of makeup on your gray face at a wake with a

catholic priest

It’s less than heaven

Less than irrelevant

Less than the most negative segment

That you could even conjure up in your vast imagination

It’s tasteless

It’s dirt

It’s rotting organs

It’s worms

And the perfect sounds are drowned out by the ground now

By the cries of the few and far between

By the record labels that are capitalizing on dreams

And they’ll repackage you as deluxe

And they’ll romanticize your death grunts

But the dust on the dollar bin gatefold sleeve just

Screams that nobody gave a fuck

People turn sideways their eyes

When something beautiful dies

People turn sideways their eyes

When something beautiful dies

A cry is raised to the skies