Young and strong Hollywood son   In the early morning light   This star fell down   On Sunset Boulevard      Young and strong beautiful one   We embraced so close   Is gone   Was torn away      Let the youth of America mourn   Include him in their prayers   Let his image linger on   Repeat it everywhere      With candles, with flowers   He was one of ours   One of ours      Why don't you let him be?   He's gone   We know   Give his mother and his father peace      Your vulture's candor, your casual slander   You murder his memory   He's gone, we know   It's nothing but a tragedy      Lay to rest your soul and body   Lay beside your name   Lay to rest your rage   Your hunger and amazing grace      With candles, with flowers   You were one of ours   One of ours      I saw cameras expose your life   I heard rumors explode with lies   I saw children in tears   Cry and crowd around the sight      Of where you had collapsed that day   Where your last breath and word had been sighed   Where your heart had burst   And where you had died   Where you had died   Where you had died      I saw how they were lost in grieving   All half believing if you were gone   The loss and pain of it   Crime and the shame of it, you were gone   It was such a nightmare raving   "How could we save him from himself?"      I saw how they were lost in grieving   All half believing, you were gone   The loss and pain of it   Crime and the shame of it, you were gone   It was such a nightmare raving