It was just another story printed on the second page
Underneath the Tiger's football score
It said he was only eighteen, a boy about my age
They found him face down on his bedroom floor

There'll be services on Friday
At the Lawrence Funeral Home
Then out on Moores Ville highway
They'll lay him 'neath a stone

How do you get that lonely, how do you hurt that bad?
To make you make the call, that havin' no life at all
Is better than the life that you had
How do you feel so empty? You want to let it all go
How do you get that lonely and nobody knows?

Did his girlfriend break up with him, did he buy or steal that gun?
Did he lose a fight with drugs or alcohol?
Did his Mom and Daddy forget to say, “I love you son?'
Did no one see the writing on the wall?

I'm not blamin' anybody
We all do the best we can
I know hindsight's 20/20
But I still don't understand

How do you get that lonely, how do you hurt that bad?
To make you make the call, that havin' no life at all
Is better than the life that you had
How do you feel so empty? You want to let it all go
How do you get that lonely and nobody knows?

It was just another story printed on the second page
Underneath the Tiger's football score