Truth in Blue, lyrics sans chorus

When the sky is no longer blue

I Find myself thinking of you

Did you know how it feels

(feels like sunshine)

Feels like sunshine held captive in the dew

Let me tell you what is real?

You said "I love you" through the window pane

Window mullions crossed that heart again

I think we perched upon high tension lines

(Thoughtless, we were)

Piqued wounds in the air, dark birds unaware 

We are chambered, between x and y

When the ground no longer has a hue

I lose myself thinking of you

But did you see me standing there?

(look through the glare)

Looks like shadow, where my heart reels,

Censored glistening amber fields.

You said "I love you" shifting up the gear

Street lights chipping at my belief again

I think we pieced together two fault lines

(Reckless lovers)

Piqued wounds in the air, dark birds unaware 

They are chambered in frames of strobing night

Time beads up the sweat of truth in play

Nor's there time to melt the frosty veil.

But it sure glowed as you drove away

(look through the glow)

Spiral logic belies a pearly truth

Black ice concealed beneath drifting snow.

No one was ready for you to pass that way.

Why didn't you take it slow?

Old enough to know better...

"...old enough to know better." 

Now there's a phrase I have a problem with. If all parents raised their children in exactly the same fashion and under the same conditions we might be able to say we all agree on a level of maturity such as "old enough to know better". But we don't. And levels of maturity vary greatly at all grade levels. (I can confirm this from experience watching k thru 5th grade children interact at recess) --- in fact there are too many children these days who don't get enough supervision or the opportunity at home to witness how to compassionately treat other people. Too many children witness adult frustration and anger, and sometimes terrifying examples of resignation, addiction and violence. In this way socialization skills and the quality of our overall togetherness is increasingly challenged today.

A child by the law may be expected to know better by say 16 or 18 but if they were given no firm guidelines nor given a proper social perspective, they will likely often cross behavioral boundaries, inflict damage upon others and property and in the course of events upon themselves as well; and this because of a fundamental lack of decent parental nurturing in the formative years of early childhood. 

This lack of a parent or decent supervision is not necessarily the fault solely of the parent. I believe for many it's the financial conditions that create a rift between the parent and child. This same rift is what becomes the prison pipeline later in life. It is a path towards self destruction that is not determined by teachers, school administrators or government who find themselves looking for solutions afterwards for what is more a symptom of what is wrong with our system which itself neglects to sustain a healthy workforce and their families. Too many families have become "externalities", and the institutional entities which purport to be educational and social services merely propagate and exacerbate the neglected students' circumstances by isolating them and thus perhaps sealing their "anti-social" fate. Finally, we may fairly say we are witnessing the birth a nihilistic generation... and a new dark age of feudalism...