"I'm Just Seventeen"  by Alec Delphenich (2003)

I'm sitting by myself on a bar stool watching the man on stage play
To my right sits an old man who's drinking his life away
He takes another shot, slams down his glass, and shows his teeth to me
Excuse me sir, I think you just drank gasoline

What am I supposed to do
I'm just seventeen
I look at the man on stage
That's the way life's supposed to be

The night goes on and more people fill the seats
To my left sits down a man who looks a lot like me
He's maybe thirty years older hiding his ring when he makes a fist
Swallows down the last bit of beer in his glass and says, "I wish I hadn't lived my life like this"

What am I supposed to say
I'm just seventeen
I look at the man on stage
That's the way life's supposed to be

I walk out of the bar with my head held a little too low
Finally get to my car, sit down and roll the windows too
I look up at the sky and ask a question I know no one can hear
If the future's so far away, why is what determine it so near

What am I supposed to think
I'm just seventeen
I remember the man on stage
That's the way life's supposed to be