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