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Justice For Sid

from Justice For Sid by Proper iD

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In a candle-lit, incense-filled room three members of Proper iD gathered and allowed Sid to speak. This is the result.

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Justice For Sid

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Sex Pistol Sid Vicious almost collapsed in court yesterday when he was accused of murdering his blonde girlfriend Nancy Spungen

Vicious in a trance

In court, Vicious was helped to a chair as he staggered and buckled at the knees

Sid Vicious (unintelligible)

I want justice for my son, Sid!

Mother of punk star Sid Vicious accused of murdering his girlfriend said last night, "I want justice for my Sid!"

I didn't do it, ma!

Sid Vicious dies in drug drama (unintelligible)

The girlfriend Michelle Robinson
was completely unaware
that he had died,
that he had died,
that he had died
while he slept

In a candle-lit, incense-filled room a...
dark-haired woman scrawls...
she...
groans in vain as the pen leaps across the page the words she writes are...
violent and blasphemous...
Sid Vicious dead for...
months...
is telling the world his story!

We were talking about the love between us all and the people who hide their themselves behind a wall of illusion, never glimpsing truth until it's far too late when they slip away

No-one remembers my sweet pistol
Punk was a ribbon that a careless girl wore
No-one remembers my sweet pistol
Punk was a ribbon that a careless girl wore
No-one sings about their true love
everyone crowds for a drink at the bar

He was her little lad
The boy she adored
When he died he left behind the paraphernalia
of a Punk Rock star
Like a game of Three Card Monte
Dead at the Chelsea
Like a bad game of Three Card Monte
The King's never where he's supposed to be

Unintelligible

Game of three card monte
The king's never where he's supposed to be

Unintelligible

Sid don't leave me
Sid don't leave me
Alone with Johnnie
Sid don't leave me
alone with Stevie
No-one remembers my sweet pistol
I'm a six-gun
I'm a six-gun
Dead at 21
And now the time has come
to face the final curtain
Hey, come on, come on
Ride me, ride me, ride me,
into the sun

Dead at twenty-one

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from Justice For Sid, released September 20, 2020
Justice For Sid
Words by Lach
Music by Notkin, England, and Lach
©2020 Notkin, England, Lach

Lach - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Norman England - Electric Guitar
Geoff Notkin - Bass
Drums and Effects - Notkin & England
Produced and Engineered by Geoff Notkin at Carbon Sound, Hoboken NJ, USA on November 10, 1990.
Cover art by Lach

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