Is Killing

Is Killing
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Sex is killing the boy next door

He is only seventeen years old

He isn't a homosexual

He didn't lay down with just anyone

"I never thought it could happen to me

I had so much to look forward to

Sometimes I'm living in disbelief

of how there isn't a cure and I have nowhere to turn"

If there's a God in this universe

why then inflict this upon his kingdom

What kind of human suffering

will it take to destroy the infection

Drugs are killing the girl next door

and she has no one to talk to

Two working parents in an average home

She didn't know where to go and somehow took the wrong turn

"It seemed no more than a quick escape

from the depression and emptiness

I felt my life was so meaningless

With no one there by my side I thought I'd take a free ride"

If there's a God in this universe

did he create cocaine and heroin

This kind of self-destruction

is a by-product of self-made worthlessness

Apathy is killing the boy next door

He is only seventeen years old

He has no concept of long-term goals

He didn't know what he wanted and so it's taking it's toll

TV is killing the girl next door

She watches sex in the soap operas

She thinks that life should be just like that

but then she looks in the mirror and sees reality there

If there's a God in this universe

does he broadcast on CBN

What kind of human morality

will it take to restore our vision

Sex is killing the boy next door

and he has no one to talk to

He is only seventeen years old

He didn't know what he wanted and he is losing control...

words & music by Henry S. Rosner, 22 April 1992.