Swing And a Miss

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