"The Kids Aren't Alright"
The Offspring

When we were young the future was so bright
The old neighborhood was so alive
And every kid on the whole damn street
Was gonna make it big and not be beat

Now the neighborhood's cracked and torn
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives

Chances thrown
Nothing's free
Longing for
What used to be
Still it's hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives
Shattered dreams

Jamie had a chance, well she really did
Instead she dropped out and had a couple o' kids
Mark still lives at home cause he's got no job
He just plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot

Jay committed suicide
Brandon OD'd and died
What the hell is going on
The cruelest dream, reality

Chances thrown
Nothing's free
Longing for
What used to be
Still it's hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives
Shattered dreams

The Knoxville Girl - Traditional ballad

I met a little girl in Knoxville, 
A town you all know well, 
And every Sunday evening 
Down in her home I'd dwell. 
We went to take an evening walk 
About a mile from town. 
I picked a stick up off the ground 
And knocked that fair girl down. 

She fell down on her bended knees, 
For mercy she did cry, 
"Oh, Willie, Dear, don't kill me here 
I'm not prepared to die." 
She never spoke another word - 
I only beat her more, 
Until the ground around me 
Within her blood did flow. 

I took her by her golden curls 
And dragged her round and round. 
I threw her in the river 
That flows through Knoxville town. 
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girls 
With the dark and shining eyes. 
Go there, go there, you Knoxville girl - 
You can never be my bride. 

I lit for me a candle, 
to light my way to bed. 
I got for me a pillow, 
to rest my weary head. 

The police came down from Knoxville 
And placed me in a jail. 
My friends could not get pardon 
Nor could they go my bail. 
I'm here to waste my life away 
Down in this dreary old cell, 
Because I killed that Knoxville girl, 
The girl I loved so well.