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Verse 1
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When I had my tracheotomy
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I was blue and had stopped breathing
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wrong with me
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Doctors cut through the cartilage and skin
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At the bottom of my throat
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And then they snaked that trach tube in
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Verse 2
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And I was one and a half
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I was my parents' only kid
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And they had lost two
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before that
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I always knew how close I'd come
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Well, that must have been scary, Mom
Verse 3
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Gary Coleman, he was "Arnold" on TV
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Well, I grew up watching him and
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Conrad Bain and Kimberly
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It turns out that he had
a trach scar too
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Where they cut into his throat
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And then they threaded that
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Verse 4
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But that was much later on
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In the year that he turned forty when his
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fanbase was all gone
And his health was so touch-and-go
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His His His girlfriend proposed
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But they broke up on a TV show
Verse 5
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Mary Wells, she was known as
Motown's Queen
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But laryngeal cancer left
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her unable to sing
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They tried radiation, multiple surgeries
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But she didn't have insurance
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and lost almost everything
Verse 6
Poor thing
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But Diana Ross helped with her bills
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ArethaFranklin tried her very
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best to help out Mary Wells
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And Dionne Warwick did
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And Mary Wells, she pulled through
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For one more year or two
Verse 7
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Dylan Thomas looked com
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On a trip to New York City to
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promote his poety
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Three straight days of drinking out
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in Greenwich and Chelsea
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He was taken to the hospital,
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turned blue and not breathing
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Verse 8
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And Caitlin Thomas said
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When she walked into St Vincent's
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"Is the bloody man dead yet?"
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And later that day she got so
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drunk she was restrained
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And her husband slipped away
Verse 9
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Ray Davies had a tracheotomy
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He was at St. Thomas' Hospital in London,
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aged thirteen
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And during his long recovery
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Nurses put him in a wheelchair
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And they'd wheel him out onto
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a balcony (on a balcony)
Verse 10
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And down that evening sun did sink
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Painting London and the river and that
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freaked-out future future Kink
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Waterloo lit up for one sick
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kid
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And, at twenty-three, he he recorded a song about it
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