Swing and a Miss - Cokie the Clown

When I saw his body just hangin there, I couldn’t understand why I didn’t care

As much as everyone else, they were crying and screaming

While I just tried to get him down

While I lifted his body, Jerry was able to free his neck from the coaxial cable

Then we saw him exhale and thought we got him down in time

But then I got a whiff of his breath, now Jagermeister will always have the

stench of death

Everybody wondered why there was so much blood, Hanging doesn’t usually leave

such a mess

I explained to them the day before he tried the same thing, but like his life

he had little success

He made a noose out of a whip he bought in Mexico

I heard him hit the floor while I was cooking beans

He said the whip broke and he split his head on the sink

That’s when a normal person probably intervenes

But the actual words that I said to him, were, Dude don’t do that again

I probably should have called his family, but I just told my girlfriend kinda

casually

She didn’t see the gravity of what I said

So I was the only one not surprised the next day when we found him dead

After the paramedics left, we started to drink, then we went to a party to try

not to think

About what we’d just seen, we were only 19

Then someone asked who was gonna clean up the scene

There was a blood stained floor, and a kicked in door

But everyone was thinking bout what they could score

His girlfriend bereaved, while the rest of us thieved, his room became a used

record store

Millie cried and told us we all suck, when Vicky grabbed the keys and tried to

take his pickup truck

When his parents flew up the next day, I showed them where it happened

But I didn’t know what to say

Except, that’s where we got him down, that’s when they noticed that the floor

was still brown

Cuz we didn’t have the decency, to mop up the blood that his parents might see

They held each other and cried when they realized they were standing in a dried

blood puddle

Where their beautiful son had died.

From his successful suicide