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Last Minutes with ODEN

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    I already got out of prison for ten years
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    but I really don't know who he was
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    Tell you the truth I don't even think like him
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    I look back and think of the guy
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    of who I was some poor pathetic guy
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    Wasn't even tough or crazy,
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    it was just some pathetic guy
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    and I made a lot of decisions based on fear
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    You know, a whole life based on fear
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    and smoking screens
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    and like the poor dark time of my life, y'know
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    I wasn't taking care of myself spiritually at the time
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    I couldn't
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    I don't think I was willing to
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    I don't know if I was able to
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    I needed to go through
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    and he was there the whole way through me, man
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    From beginning till the end
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    and completely unjudgemental
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    He was lying next to me like it was another day
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    And he knew I was hurting
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    He was just lying next to Chavy
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    and you know Chavy, crazy Chavy was on the couch
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    and Vino was on my couch kicking dope
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    We're also poor sick and hungry and weird
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    we're really weird people
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    He just didn't know they're weird
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    All my friends got stories about that dog
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    My buddies when they come stay at my pad
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    they're having a hard time
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    my fuckin' dog will get right next to them
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    He would just get right next to them
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    and he wouldn't leave
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    he was just so loyal
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    he was just so down for the guys I loved
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    and that dog knew it
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    He showed me through his example
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    how to love and I loved him
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    I don't think I showed him how to love
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    I think he showed me how to love
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    Yes, I need to go right now
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    He's in a lot of pain, I can tell
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    I can't keep... y'know, like...
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    For my own comfort, y'know
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    Yea, we're doing a documentary on him right now
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    We're finishing off the five hours
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    What can we do about him?
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    I talked to Cynthia this morning, and she was like
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    "We're doing the right thing."
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    Thank God I have people that know what's going on
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    He was so ragged, and he was... sobbing
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    Oden stayed with Cynthia
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    because I moved to a different place
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    And they wouldn't let dogs in
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    And it was five flights up
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    My place had five flights of stairs
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    And I was thinking like,
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    "We can't take him"
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    I knew he was going to die two months ago
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    I knew it
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    And it was my own childish fears like
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    "I'm gonna miss you, don't go..."
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    Y'know?
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    "Don't go"
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    Y'know?
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    It may sound crazy, but I'm like...
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    some universal job,
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    like God gave him some job to do here
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    and take care of people y'know
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    He wasn't blocked
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    by what clothes he was wearing,
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    what car he had,
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    or what crew he was hanging with
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    or what friends, and who's popular
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    what make him look good,
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    he was just about helping, man
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    It was like,
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    "hey, you're sick in my couch. You're my friend."
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    Y'know what I mean?
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    Wanna say goodbye to Oden?
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    Oh yes
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    smooch
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    You tell me how it is
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    Go say hi to Jesus
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    Tell'im we're comin'
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    We're comin' soon, ok?
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    You tell Jesus we love Him
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    And you hang out with people high on Him
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    He'll give you a new leg, prospector...
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    He'll give you a brand new leg
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    And it'll be all good
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    I wanna be the man
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    y'know, I wanna be like, "I just put this dog down"
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    and John Wayne,
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    but it's not me
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    y'know, I'm not that tough
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    I really am a soft dude
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    I really am a sensitive dude
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    and the more I fucked up,
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    the more sensitive I get man
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    And thank God
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    Their whole job is to serve I think
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    And I told him like,
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    "His job is done"
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    Your job is done here, champ... Ok?
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    You know, his job was done
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    And there's now way in denying that
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    It was my was my own childish fears
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    "You cannot leave me, because I'm gonna miss you"
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    You know, he was just like,
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    "I'm going, champ. I gotta go sometime"
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    What?
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    He's gone.
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    He's gone.
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    He knew it.
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    He knew it.
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    He know he was going
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    His time is up
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    I love you baby
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    You be a good boy there
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    That dog was in bend
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    And that dog needed to go
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    He don't wanna be here no more
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    I've tried to stay open for people, y'know
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    I'm trying to let people know, the truth..
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    about how I feel
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    y'know, and um...
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    God is love
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    And love is God
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    y'know, and um...
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    God was that dog I held
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    y'know?
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    Y'know, he just showed me unconditional love
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    He did
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    And by that, I think
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    I love people a lot more.
Title:
Last Minutes with ODEN
Description:

Thank You Jason Wood for allowing us this moment.
Oden's struggle with cancer finally came to an end.
May he rest in peace and his memory be eternal.

Canon 7D

Directed/Edited: Eliot Rausch
Director of Photography: Luke Korver, Matt B. Taylor
Song: Big Red Machine / Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner

A story from the 8 LIVES Documentary.
For more of Jason Wood's story from 3 years ago
see http://vimeo.com/14047489

www.PhosPictures.com
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Video Language:
English
Duration:
06:15

English subtitles

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