One More Beer

In a smoke-filled dormitory eighteen years ago

I remember painting pictures of the ice and snow

On a night when something turned into something wrong

I remember telling friends I'd never live this long

As the scent of teen-aged ignorance flowed back and forth

And the wheels of adolescence took a senseless course

There was nothing in my eyes except a simple fear

A peace pipe, and a cigarette, and one more beer

Surprised as I awoke and I was twenty-nine

My whole life a twisted metaphoric nursery rhyme

A poison page of history that lost its place