Sucks. I met him several times, and did some promo work for him long ago. Sat with his gorgeous fiancee Pam on a scaffold in Dallas with 250,000 Jesus Freaks in 1972, and didn't know he had been in bad health.

Be Careful What You Sign

i was walking down the road when i bumped into you
i was walking down the road when i bumped into you
you stopped me you touched me you looked me in the eye
i had a feeling that you knew me i decided you must die
i pulled out my thornton special i shot you in the head
i threw you in the alley way and i left you for dead

then a man with a hat came up from behind
the sky went black and i thought i was blind
he put his hand inside my jacket and left a million dollar bills
he slipped his hand into my pocket and gave me women and thrills
and when i turned around to thank him there was no one there but me
and both my hands where filled with sand i was standing by the sea

we had a dinner at eight and women at nine
the party was great till we ran out of wine
there was a knock upon the bedroom door my knees began to shake
and this man came in and melted all the candels on my cake
he said i've come here to escort you it's time for you to go

i was running down the road
i was trying to leave
and i saw you all alone in between the theives
and when the lightning flashed i saw somebody hanging from a tree
and as i turned to walk away i realized it was me
i pulled out my thornton special i shot me in the head
i threw me in the alley way and left me for dead
down the road
down the road

dbirchall: Let's see... had a top-20 hit at age 21, things were going pretty okay. Then he started doing Christian Rock, wound up brain-damaged from a plane crash at age 31, had a heart attack at 44, and died at 60?

Are we sure God likes Christian Rock?

/Wonder if anybody from Petra is dead yet.

Hope not. I knew them all back in the day....