CATHOLIC BOY歌词

i was born in a pool
left in my mother’s stand
i spat at that surgeon and his tremblin’ hand
when i felt for life, i was the nursery boy
i stole the doctors scalpel and i slit the cord...
i was a catholic boy...
i was redeemed through pain, not through joy...
i was two months early, they put me under glass
i screamed and cursed at children when the nurses passed
was convicted of theft as i slid from the womb
they led me straight from my stroller to a cell in the tombs...
i was a catholic boy...
redeemed through pain, not through joy...
they starved me for weeks, they thought they’d teach me fear
i fed on cell-mates trees, it gave me flyin’ ideas
when they cut me loose, the time it served you well
i made allies in heaven, comrades in hell
i was a catholic child...
with the grand red...the grand wild...
i make angels dance and drop to their knees
when i enter a church the feet of statue bleed
i understand the faith of all my enemies
with that christ and the god, it’s never me...
i’m a catholic boy...
i was redeemed through pain and not through joy...
i watched his sweetest psalms stolen by the choir
i dreamed of all his bones hangin’ from a wire
i take the contribution, i get absolution
i make the resolution to verify my soul...
i’m a catholic boy...
redeemed through pain, not through joy...
and they can’t touch me now, i got every size of the...
they got baptism, i got penance
i got communion, i got extreme...
man...i got confirmation...
i was a catholic boy...
redeemed through pain and not through joy...
and now, i’m a catholic man...
i put my tongue to the rail whenever i can...