Started out like any one of you   Good intentions and a degree   But one hot night under the neon lights   Killed a boy just seventeen      Now I sit here rainin' on my Maker   Reprieve is all I'm praying for   Lord I fear the hangman's steps approachin'   Will the priest knock gently on my door      And I know I've let my daddy down   and I broke my mother's heart   I'd give anything turn back time again   Just give me one more start      I don't need no trial humiliation   Just tell me that I'm heaven bound   I don't want no two faced consolation   What use is that to me six feet underground      I'm going down to the engine shed   Put a gun up to my head   Blow myself into the promised land   We call it scarred and scared   And if you ever see my son again   Don't let on just how I fared   Tell him, tell him I went down big and strong   I was never, never, never scarred or scared      All the girls that once did gather 'round me    have moved along to someone else   Sitting here desperation is my close friend   What I'd give to kiss one of them now   Oo yeah I'll take you there    I'll take ya there