> > just watched meat singing live on top of the pops from 94
> > singing oitrvm and he said just before the start that this
> > was jims faveriot song.although its a great song does
> > anybody think jim would have picked another song as his
> > fav and not objects.
>
> Perhaps it's his favourite because it could be more
> personal than anything else he's written
>
> The skies were pure and the fields were green
> And the sun was brighter than its ever been
> When I grew up with my best friend Kenny
> We were close as any brothers that you ever knew
> We were close as any brothers that you ever knew
> It was always summer and the future called
> We were ready for adventures and we wanted them all
> There was so much left to dream and so much time to make
> it real
>
> But I can still recall the sting of all the tears when he
> was gone
> They said he crashed and burned
> I know I'll never learn
> Why any boy should die so young
There are many Kenny's in the world, and many children who die much too young. But this makes me think of my own first cousin Kenny, who at the age of 10, during the summer of 1963, drowned in his backyard swimming pool.
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