Verve Pipe - The Freshman

When I was young I knew everything
And she a punk who rarely ever took advice
Now I'm guilt stricken, sobbing with my head on the floor
Stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice

I can't be held responsible
She was touching her face
I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise
For the life of me I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen

My best friend took a week's vacation to forget her
His girl took a week's worth of Valium and slept
And now he's guilt stricken sobbing with his head on the floor
Thinks about her now and how he never really wept he says

I can't be held responsible
She was touching her face
I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me
I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise
And we'd never compromise
For the life of me
I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen

Hey yeah-ee-yeah-ee-yeah-ee-yeah
Hey yeah
Hey yeah-ee-yeah-ee-yeah-ee-yeah

We've tried to wash our hands of all of this
We never talk of our lacking relationships
And how we're guilt stricken sobbing with our heads on the floor
We fell through the ice when we tried not to slip, we'd say it

I can't be held responsible
She was touching her face
And I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me
I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise
And we'd never compromise
For the life of me
I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen

For the life of me
I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise
And we'd never compromise
For the life of me
I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshmen

We were merely freshmen

We were only freshmen


REASON:
I graduated May 16, 2005, thus I was starting to get down and worried in April about the
whole issue of never seeing a lot of my friends again.  Graduating sucks, but all senior
year, you look back and what was, what is, and what might have been.  While I could have
used such songs as Vitamin C's "Graduation Song (Friends Forever)" or Baz Luhrmann's
"Everybody's Free (The Sunscreen Song)", I felt it appropriate to use a more dreary
song.  During Freshman year, this guy who sat in front of me in Spanish II, Kenton,
commited suicide.  It hit everyone pretty hard.  There was also 9-11 and plenty of other
horrible things that happened.  This one goes to those that died in 2001, or as I came
to call it, the year of death.