Bowling Green Lyrics

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