doug_anthony_all_stars sabbie 'friends' He was quiet, he was shy - a stay-at-home sort of guy Someone you'd trust your sister with, he had a twinkle in his eye But they said he was psychotic They called him psychotically disturbed They said he was mentally unbalanced They called him a schizophrenic mass murderer With severe fractious personality disorders They used their jargonistic words So he killed and mutilated - so what? Served his victims on a tray But Denis Nilsen was my friend, okay? Tuesday nights we'd go out bowling and he'd blow those pins to hell He'd watch what he'd eat and it watched him as well He was my friend, friend, we can all be friends If we just let the little hurts between us mend Let me tell you about my friend, boys - I met him at the circus He was hiding in the dark, pulling funny faces, making people laugh But they say he was a freak They say he was genetically deformed Should have sold his body to science the minute he was born But he'd just smile and say: "I think you've all been very kind" Heck yes, John Merrick, the elephant man, was a friend of mine Why doesn't that come as a big fucking surprise? And we'd all go out on blind dates, hessian bags over our heads We never slept like normal kids, no, we'd sit straight up in bed He was my friend, friend, we can all be friends If we just let the little hurts between us mend He was a painter, quite artistic, he had that suave panache A tasteful brown shirt, a cute toothbrush moustache He loved his German Shepherd and walking by the babbling brook And watching blonde-haired, blue-eyed children setting fire to their books Yet they say he was a monster, the leader of the Reich But Adolf Hitler he was my friend. Alright? And he loved to go out dancing, really dug the Human League And that song by Alice Cooper, 'Only Women Bleed' He was my friend, friend, we can all be friends If we just let the little hurts between us mend 011122 what's it to you? who go blather from