The Vervepipe Essay, Research Paper

The Verve Pipe : The Freshman

When I was young I knew everything

and she a punk who rarely 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 now

I can’t be held responsible

cause she was touching her face

I wont be held responsible

she fell in love in the first place

For the life of me I cannot remember

what made up 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 freshman

My best friend took a week’s

vacation to forget her

his girl took a week’s worth of

valium and slept

now he’s guilt stricken sobbing with his

head on the floor

thinks about her now and how he never really

wept he says

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

When you are young you always think, well that would never happen to me ?. Or even almost have a view that you were indestructible. You could never die, I am too young. We have everything worked out, everything planned. This was kind of the story between this girl and guy. The girl was stubborn and no matter how many people told her she was wrong in here was, she though she knew everything. Nothing bad could ever happen to her. She kept doing what she was doing and she died. The Boyfriend is weeping over her death but convinces himself there was nothing he could have done. She knew everything and it was her choice, why would she take anyone’s advice ? After all she was the one to fall in love. A week is all it took to get over, but how could everything be going so right then take a U turn for the worse. Everything was worked out but we can’t be held responsible because we were only freshman , young and childish in our ways. It shows itself in different ways this way just happen to be death.