Charlie Sheen – Always Winning
By Josh Raff and Eli Northrup
Chorus
Uh huh you know Charlie Sheen
Everything he do it’s Major League
Erol Flynn Frank Sinatra that’s nothing
Banging hookers at the Plaza that’s stunting
He’s on a Drug and it’s called Charlie Sheen so he’s
Always winning always winning always winning always winning
Tiger blood and adonis in his genes so he’s
Always winning always winning always winning always winning
Verse 1
We got Charlie Sheen 1 and Charlie Sheen 2/ They both winning cuz that’s what Charlie Sheen do/ He’s the wild thing living in the 9th inning/ always coming out on top Ricky Vaughn bi-winning/ he be snide grinning while he cashing his checks/ thinks CBS coke booze and sex/ Goddesses on his arm and he making ’em swoon/ everybody wanna be a part of Charlie’s Platoon/ cuz he’s the hot shot that is just how he rolls/ either you are in his corner or you’re one of the trolls/ he make Richards and Jagger look like a disgrace/ this is Charlie Sheen and he’s melting your face/
Chorus
Verse 2
Charlie Sheen 2 men everybody else a half/ his success rate 100% I did the math/ He don’t use drugs he use a blender/ he’s a vacuum cleaner on a bender/
from young gunner down on Wall Street trading the stocks/ to LA throwing ragers banging 7 gram rocks/ He can bring it like nobody else bringing it in the game/ disease bitch please he cured it with his brain/
Chorus
Verse 3
He got one speed GO he letting us know/ such a winner almost making 2 mili per show/ He goes on runs so epic they could last for weeks/ he’s like Wall Street II: Charlie Never Sleeps/ he never says can’t he just says do it/ he’s not beyond the law but he runs right through it/ now he’s cured he’s done he make his own rules/ Charlie Sheen live forever cuz dyings for fools/
Chorus
]]>Alex and I drifted a part a bit once we got to high school, and I hadn’t seen him in a while before we ran into each other at the bar last Thanksgiving. Turned out we were both in law school, on similar paths, and still shared a love for music. When I told him that I was playing in a band again he was so pumped about it, and told me he needed to see a show. I promised I would let him know next time we were playing in the area and he said he’d be there.
When we played at the DC9 at the end of July we were chilling before at the bar when Alex came in the door. We got to chat for a bit before we went on stage and I think it struck us both how far we’d come since those days with BEAD. We made plans to get together in earnest in the near future, but that was the last time I would ever see him.
The next time we had a show inDC was on January 7 of this year, and I was on facebook the day of the show when I remembered that Alex was on break. I thought he might be in town that night so I went to check his facebook page to see if he was around. What I saw instead was a series of posts in rememberance of Alex, expressing sorrow for his passing. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing in that moment and it’s actually still extremely hard to believe Alex is really gone.
A flood of memories immediately hit me–memories of us as kids playing soccer, with the band, partying together. What really struck me was that in every memory I had of Alex, he had a big smile in his face. That was just the kind of person that he was, and it sounds like a cliche, but in his case it’s really true; he was almost always smiling.
I was thinking about Alex throughout the show that night, and with all of these memories in my head I wrote a song once we got back to New York. It’s called “Keep Smiling”,and you can download it below. If you knew Alex you probably loved him a lot like I did, and that’s what this song is really about.
-Eli
In loving memory of Alex T. Finamore
1/1/85 – 1/6/11