Bartees Strange
Jean
[Verse 1]
You should've turned 30 this year
You should've been pursuing an art career
Would've made a great civil engineer
You could've won championship rings
You could've stuck with the drums, I'd sing
You could've been so many things

[Verse 2]
They let a brilliant mind like yours
Waste away behind a locked door
Two and a half weeks, four walls
And a cold concrete floor
And you spoke three languages
But there's no talking your way out of this
I know I wouldn't have lasted as long as you did

[Chorus]
I haven't been in the same room since I was 23
And I always thought I'd see you again eventually

[Verse 3]
And the last time we spoke
I was chasing you down for money you owed
(I don't have a rhyme for this, I'm just ashamed)
Too broke to fly out to the service
Never seen the plot you're buried in
But I think about you every day
[Chorus]
And I haven't been in the same room since I was 23
I always thought I'd see you again eventually
Like something on TV, catch up like old friends over coffee
But sometimes there's no cutscenes or resolutions
Just endings

[Outro]
--news has obtained an internal review by Immigration and Customs Enforcement that reveals how staff at an immigration detention center in Georgia violated agency regulations in the case of a detainee who died by suicide in 2017. 27-year-old Jean Carlos Jiménez-Joseph killed himself after being held in solitary confinement for 18 days at ICE's Stewart Detention Center. The Panamanian national was a diagnosed schizophrenic who had tried killing himself once before at the facility