Trial of the Century

What does it mean when you're sixteen

The world's a cold and lonely place

But you're still kicking

Every door down in the place

The war of words they're so upright

You pass a hundred sleepless nights

And the worst is yet to come or so they say

Here comes seventeen

And just beyond

There's tolerance and empathy

To protect you from them all

A stand of evergreen

Just like the places we would always talk about

To catch you when you fall

You hear a knock outside the door

It never rains here anymore

So now there's nothing new

To was away the pain

A frightened face your clouded mind

The memories you've trailed behind

And seventeen still feels light years away

Nobody seems to understand you

As your grasping for that innocence

Sequestered in your mind

Was it guilt or were they blind

All this time