Catholic Boy （LP版）-The Jim Carroll Band
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
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 when I slid from the womb
They led me straight from my stroller
To a cell in the tombs
I was a Catholic boy
I was 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 on the come rades 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
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 are not get practice
They got Baptism I got Penance
I got Communion I got extreme
I got confirmation
I am a Catholic child
Lot of brain
Redeemed through love and wow they
And now I'm a Catholic man
I put my tongue to the rail whenever I can