Stockyard Stoics - High School Yearbook lyrics

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 [Chorus:] 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 cla** for a day or two Or later in the parking lot with an eager ether crew [Chorus] 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 cla**mate 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 [Chorus:] 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