nothing will ever be the same again

The Prince caught it in the back down on Bourbon Street.
Don was a pacifist, now he's cold meat.
Tula choked on a lungful of toxic waste.
Kid Psycho was squashed into a fine paste.

And Psycho, I miss you more than all the others
and I salute you, brother.

Those are c-listers who died, died
They were all poor saps, and they died.
The preceding was brought to you by Crisis on Infinite Earths and this song...

The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died (from Catholic Boy, 1980) - One of the two "list" songs that became alternative format and college radio staples back in the good old days (at least on the Boston airwaves), the other song being The Nails' "88 Lines About 44 Women." Apparently the interplay between eros and thanatos extends even to quasi-novelty songs.