William's Daughters: Music

A young guy in my area got in trouble with drugs and the law, then got the chance to turn his life around. I watched him make that turn towards the good. The judge offered him rehab instead of jail. He went and got in a fight there after a few weeks and left, went back to the street and died of an overdose. I was in Costa Rica for 2 weeks when it happened and I missed the wake and funeral and found out about it when I got back. This song was my way to grieve.

I was down in Costa Rica making my world bigger
I came home and they told me what you did
Now I cant see the flowers, the bird or the iguanas
All I see is one dead kid

What you do to yourself you do to everybody else
It doesn’t need you to believe it to be true
Your father and your mother, your sister and your friends
We all buried a piece of us with you

Too young, 21, over when it’s just begun
Too young, damage done, 21

I wonder what your mom did with your favorite sweatshirt
I never saw you wear anything else
Did she give it to your sister, throw it in the garbage
Or fold it up and put it on a shelf

Under Oath, overdose
You almost made it, it was so close
under oath, overdose
When you hurt yourself
you hurt the ones you love the most

Too young, 21, over when it’s just begun
Too young, damage done, 21

Now you’ll never know the good
you could have done
For someone somewhere Tim,
you could have been the only one

Here we are in heaven, here we are in heaven
We turn it into hell inside our minds
In these suburban basements, our safe suburban bedrooms
The inner city ghetto’s what you’ll find

There’s people dying to get in while we’re dying to get out
While we’re dying here with everything we need
These lives that we are living leave us bursting at the seems
Give us everything but nothing to believe

Too young, 21, over when it’s just begun
Too young, damage done, 21

I wonder what your mom did with your favorite sweatshirt
I wonder what your mom did, I wonder what your mom did