| Linda was killed last Saturday about fifteen blocks from where she lives
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| In a car crash, people gathered ‘round the graveside friends and relatives
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| dressed in black
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| Preacher mumblin' how she’s bound to go to Heaven
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| The service started at half-past ten, it was all over by eleven
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| They say it’s God’s to give, and God’s to take away
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| But why He happened to pick Linda on a Saturday night, no one could say
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| Maybe it’s just one of those things, one of those things
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| They found guy the who did it, he had the lobotomy and the chicken eyes
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| And he gazed around the courtroom with a kind of vague surprise
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| Reminded me of one of those Vikings with the long-handled swords
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| The kind of guy even Joan Baez would not feel non-violent towards
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| Said he wasn’t looking, maybe he had had a bit too much
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| It was dark, it was raining, he didn’t see the light or some such
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| It was just one of those things, one of those things
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| I asked my local guru the situation and he gave me this reply
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| While pointing a bony finger up into the general direction of the sky
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| 'Get on with your own life, it is not ours to reason why'
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| Said he used to worry about it once when he was young, now he doesn’t even
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| bother to try
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| He left me with a feeling that what he said was basically sound
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| Like a black hole in space or philosophy, useless but profound
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| Just one of those things, one of those things
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| Tonight I’m gonna take myself down to my local cafe
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| Gonna get smashed out of my mind, gonna waste myself away
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| Gonna drink and drink and sink into that dark abyss
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| I wanna be just like that Viking, I wanna know if ignorance is truly bliss
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| Linda’s in the cold ground, won’t see her anymore
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| Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
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| It’s just one of those things, one of those things
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| Oh, just one of those things |