Bowling Green

His parents died in a car crash when he was three
So he grew up with his grandma, young, wild and free
When I met him in school we both were nine
We hit it off right away, everything went just fine

By the time we were ten we were best friends
We didn't know we already were close to the end
The next few years were party extreme
Alcohol and girls like we've never seen

Were were still kids, barely able to read
But a fake ID card was all that we need
We gave it our all and lived just for tonight
Thrashed with everyone we could beat a fight

I never thought once that it could end this way
I wish you weren't gone
I wish you could have stayed
We can no longer share or ride this wave
The memories I have of you
I'll take with me into my grave

But all that shit fucks you up and takes you to hell
A lesson he quickly learned all too well
With fifteen he got stuck on bad grades
Got stuck on bad drugs, the needle gave him AIDS

They put him into the psych ward with a detox program
He couldn't make it alone and felt like a slaugtherhouse lamb
They broke the child in him and everything he has been
Broke him down and tore him apart at the seams
I watched him deteriorate, there was nothing I could do to help
Until he was just a mere shadow of his own self
Things went worse when his grandmother died of old age
Meds and my visits were all he had in his cage

I never thought once that it could end this way
I wish you weren't gone
I wish you could have stayed
We can no longer share or ride this wave
The memories I have of you
I'll take with me into my grave

They put that whole desaster half back together somehow
A broken man with broken dreams he could not avow
So he went to the highway bridge one night all alone
The newspaper said the truck crushed every one of his bones

I never thought once that it could end this way
I wish you weren't gone
I wish you could have stayed
We can no longer share or ride this wave
The memories I have of you
I'll take with me into my grave

I never thought once that it could end this way
I wish you weren't gone
I wish you could have stayed
We can no longer share or ride this wave
The memories I have of you
I'll take with me into my grave