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My Friends Are Dying

from Kindness In A Strong City by Mark Laurent

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MY FRIENDS ARE DYING

Everywhere I go my friends are dying
every place I turn I see them crying
can’t they see that this pain doesn’t need to be
everywhere I go my friends are dying

There was Sheryl
she’s just a small town run away to the big city child
she’s only 15 but she’s been around like she was 45
I think you know what I mean
then late one night in the candle light
a cold, dirty needle went and took her life
now how I wish thee was some way I could reach her

Sam used to hang around
in the scene I used to hang around in
just another laid-back hippie freak
nothing ever seemed to bother him
but he lost his mind and I don’t know why
it seemed like he just gave up the will to try
it’s like he’d never lived here
it’s like he’d never lived at all

There was Jimmy K and Davy A, Pauline and Sue
Moth, Merlin and Maggie-May, and they’re just a few
it could have been so different, if only they knew
but who’s going to tell them now?

Jesus said the devil only comes to rip off and deceive us
there’s so many souls hanging over the pit of hell
and it’ll take a miracle to free us
if you play with poison you’re bound to die
but if we’ll turn to him he will give us life
because Jesus died fur us so that we don’t have to.

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from Kindness In A Strong City, released January 3, 1986
Guitars, vocal - Mark Laurent

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Mark Laurent Auckland, New Zealand

I've been a professional guitarist/singer/songwriter for 40 years, & I've recorded & worked on many albums. I'm also an author with 4 collections of poetry & an illustrated children's storybook published, & I've written articles & reviews for various magazines. I live in Auckland, New Zealand. As well as cafes, concerts & churches I also do a bit of busking to keep in touch with the 'real world'. ... more

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