Friday, August 7, 2009

August 7, 4:15

If you've got Jon Bon Jovi's 1997 solo album Destination Anywhere, you'll be familiar with a song called "August 7, 4:15". This haunting track is dedicated to Katherine Korzilius, the six-year-old daughter of Bon Jovi manager Paul Korzilius. On August 7, 1996, Katherine went to collect the mail at 4:15pm and never returned. Her mother drove out to search for her and found Katherine's bruised and cut body laying on the road. Katherine was admitted to hospital with a fractured skull and pronounced brain-dead at 11:30pm. She had apparently been abducted, struck in the head, and then either jumped or thrown from a vehicle. Today marks the 13th anniversary of Katherine's death. The case has never been solved.



It was another day, a perfect Texas afternoon
A mother and two children play the way they always do
As they raced home from the mailbox, a mother and her son
Against a little girl of six years old, the independent one

The deputies went door to door through all the neighbourhood
They said I got some news to tell you folks, I'm afraid it ain't so good
Somehow something happened, someone got away
Someone got the answers for what happened here today
Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no

Tell me it was just a dream
August 7, 4:15
God closed his eyes and the world got mean
August 7, 4:15

Now the people from the papers and the local TV news
Tried to find the reason
Cop dogs sniffed around for clues
Someone shouted hit and run, the coroner cried foul
Her blue dress was what she wore the day the laid her body down
Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no

Tell me it was just a dream
August 7, 4:15
God closed his eyes and the world got mean
August 7, 4:15

I know tonight that there's an angel up on heaven's highest hill
No one there can hurt you baby, no one ever well
Somewhere someone's conscience is like a burning bed
The flames are all around you, how you gonna sleep again?
Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no

Tell me it was just a dream
August 7, 4:15
God closed his eyes and the world got mean
August 7, 4:15


--Jon Bon Jovi

Rest in peace.

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