Lyrics
[verse]
Small town kid with a restless kind of soul
Never learned to color inside the whole
Daddy worked the line, mama prayed at night
Danny always chased the wrong kind of light
[verse]
Got a car and a temper he couldn't sway
Thought that trouble was just a game to play
One bad night behind an old dirt road
Turned a young man's life into a heavy load
[chorus]
Eighteen and life, that's the price he paid
One mistake and the choice he made
Now he's counting concrete, counting time
Eighteen and life for a single crime
[verse]
Mama cries behind a window pane
Watching seasons turn in the falling rain
Nothing brings the laughter back again
Just a photograph of what has been
[chorus]
Eighteen and life, that's the price he paid
One mistake and the choice he made
Now he's counting concrete, counting time
Eighteen and life for a single crime
[bridge]
Nobody warned him how it ends
Nobody saved him from his friends
Now the story's told in town
A cautionary tale passed down
[chorus]
Eighteen and life, that's the price he paid
One mistake and the choice he made
Now he's counting concrete, counting time
Eighteen and life for a single crime
