High School Yearbook

Same year as I in junior high is a kid with eyes of steel

Got a stare so full of glare and dare that you know just how he feels

A ready rage beyond his age lives the wrong way down the street

No tight belt and no tyrant cage can knock him off his feet

I don't know what is wrong with him and the older folks don't care

They just want him to move along and not hang out right there

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Boy is getting older getting stronger getting colder

He's on his way to the only place he should (or maybe only place he could) go

Go where you will not until you turn eighteen

Some get high and just get by while other kids get mean

Cigarettes and plastic bags across from the high school

Slinging adolescent slag checking out the gene pool

Still see him every now and then in class for a day or two

Or later in the parking lot with an eager ether crew

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Go off to work forty hours and more

My parents help to get me in at a friend-of-a-friend's store

And this kid nineteen same as me is in the news today

They found three bodies in the dirt off McKenzie Highway

15, 15, 13 years be still their beating hearts

My classmate and two friends of his have torn their worlds apart

They sent a priest to talk to him and find out what went wrong

And they taped every word and tear of that conversation

Now he's got no bills to pay no minimum wage petty task

They will cook one meal for him exactly as he asks

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Boy is growing older learning faster feeling colder

He's on his way to the only place he should go

Maybe he's on his way to the only place he could go

And that boy was never meant to do anyone no good

Boy was never meant to do anything no good