Key: C
Introduction:
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Sister devastation was a good friend of his
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She held him very long and very right
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She whispered him to sleep with the blues in the night
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And she slept until the dawn dragged him into light
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He used to dream he lived
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by the ocean so blue
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and his bride was a princess form the north,
He used to see the future in a potion that he drank
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but the more he saw the more he fell apart
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Everybody loved Johnny Silvers
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everybody missed him when he died
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Everybody loved Johnny Silvers
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'cause everybody has a piece of him inside
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Jesus was a junkyhe was strung out on a cross
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and the devil was just a little child
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strummin' for a loss,
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They put the two together,
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starring into a film, and they lifted the story from
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the good book of doom
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Everybody loved Johnny Silvers
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everybody missed him when he died
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Everybody loved Johnny Silvers
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'cause everybody has a piece of him inside
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He drove himself past oblivion
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he was shot from both sides
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when they found his boy his soul just cried
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it said, take me from this heaven
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take me from this hell,
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it's a place, i've lived far too long and know too well.
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Everybody loved Johnny Silvers
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everybody missed him when he died
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Everybody loved Johnny Silvers
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'cause everybody has a piece of him inside
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Everybody, everybody missed him when he died (x2)
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Everybody loved Johnny Thunders
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everybody missed him when he died
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Everybody loved Stiv Bators
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'cause everybody has a piece of him inside