I don't own anything. This is better if you listen to the song while reading. It's 18 and Life by Skid Row. It just seemed to fit Zigzag when i listen to it. NOT for children. It's rated T for a reason. Please Review!!!!
They said he was cold and cruel, that he had a heart of stone, like he was bred that way. That wasn't true. Ricky, or Zigzag, as they named him here, only after a week of being at Camp Green Lake. It had now been eighteen days.
Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone
Lived 9 to 5 and he worked his fingers to the bone
Just barely get out of school, came from the edge of town
He came from the edge of town, never went down in a fight, even though he fought alone. Fighting his parents, teachers, school, even friends, and the world. Always fighting holes down. Eighteen and life to go it seemed.
Fought like a switchblade so no one could take him down, oh no
He had no money, no, no good at home
He walked the streets as soldier and he fought the world alone
There was never money. Ricky would like and say he had enough medication. He never did.
And now it's 18 and life, you got it, 18 and life, you know
Your crime is time and it's 18 and life to go
18 and life, you got it, 18 and life, you know
Your crime is time and it's 18 and life to go
Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline
He kept his motor running, but it never kept him clean
He told his tent mates that he had burned down a part of his school, that he loved the burning. It was a different kind of burning Ricky loved. The kind that burned his throat. Alcohol. The kind that made his veins burn like gasoline in a fire. He said it kept him fighting, that it kept him running when the meds couldn't.
They say he loved adventure, "Ricky's the wild one"
He married trouble and had a courtship with a gun
With the burning came the adventure. He was always a wild one. His dad said if he didn't find a girl he might as well marry trouble, Ricky got in to enough of it.
Bang bang shoot 'em up, the party never ends
You can't think of dying when the bottle's your best friend
With bottle and the burning the party never ended. He didn't mean for it to happen. Ricky didn't even know the gun was loaded. He wishes he did.
And now it's 18 and life, you got it, 18 and life, you know
Your crime is time and it's 18 and life to go
18 and life, you got it, 18 and life, you know
Your crime is time and it's 18 and life to go, yeah
"Accidents will happen", they all heard Ricky say
He fired his six-shot to the wind, that child blew a child away
Accidents will happen wasn't what he should have said. If only Ricky knew the gun was loaded. Maybe a child wouldn't have taken another's life.
Zigzag spat in to his whole. Eighteen hole. Eighteen and life to go. His crime was time, all the time, in the hot sun, to think about what he did.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
18 and life, you got it, 18 and life, you know
Your crime is time and it's 18 and life to go
18 and life, you got it, 18 and life, you know
Your crime is time and it's 18 and life to go