about
an early song,
When I was in highschool my girlfriend was drugged and assaulted at a party. She knew who did it, and I wanted to kill the guy. Mutual friends tried to cover it up, lied to her and me, and other friends, and tried to push the whole thing as her being a liar and nothing ever happening other than her cheating on me - It was hard to take, but I trusted her. She wanted it all to just go away. Then she started hearing from a couple other girls in our town that the same thing had happened to them, from the same guy ..
She broke down at school one day, and when comforted by a teacher, everything came out - the police got involved and I was under investigation for threatening the guy.
None of the other girls would make a statement, and due to lack of evidence, he was never arrested or prosecuted.
lyrics
Seventeen and you think she's playing
She's cutting her wrists at school
Thinking of you now son, and you know it
Nothing ventured nothing gained
Aren't people all the same
Crying tears, misery, promises
Never meant to keep
Where do you go when you can't see yourself?
Where do you go when you can't feel anyone
Everything I know, everything in my heart
(what's in my heart)
Everything I've got is in my heart
Hiding behind a shroud of youth
The law can't handle teen abuse
You just let us do do our job
No vigilante justice
I wish I had the guts
To kill him for all the things he's done
I'm stuck in my room punching walls
and saying I'm sorry
Where do you go when you can't see yourself?
Where do you go when you can't feel anyone
Everything I know, everything in my heart
(what's in my heart)
Everything I've got is in my heart
I wanted to help, but life isn't fair
The red in your eyes, the blue in your hair
But then it happened again it happened
to someone else.
Jessica, Jessica (*no significance to name)
We're, still so young
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