Poster Child

Album: Where are you, Bambi Woods? (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • A balladeer wrote this song for Matthew Shepard, who was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who was murdered near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998. Shepard was kidnapped and left for dead until a bicyclist discovered him. At the time of discovery, Shepard was still alive, but in a coma. He died a few days later from severe head injuries. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Rachelle - Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Sadness Will Sear by Trivium also tells the tragic story of Shepard's murder.

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