Young Man on a Spree Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Aveks 

Cover art for Young Man on a Spree lyrics by Modern Life Is War

@xRabbitx

He's talking about the late cold war era when many kids were still being taught to "duck and cover" in the event of an atomic bomb going off near their schools.

He's basically saying god gave up hope on us ever since we started needing to teach children how they were going to act in the face of near imminent death.