Rest In Power

In memory of my good friend, Jamie McMann, a friend till the end

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"My friend drove off the other day, now he's gone and all they sayIs you got to live 'cause life goes onAnd now I see I'm mortal, too
I can't live my life like youGotta live it up while life goes on
And I think it's all rightThat I do what I like'Cause that's the way I want to liveIt's how I give, 
and I'm still giving
And now I wonder..."

You know that 
I know that
You're watching me

Punks NEver DIE they just get old

"J.A.R"

lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong

Music by Green Day

San Francisco, CA


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