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I was born in a pool, they made my mother stand |
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And I spat on that surgeon and his trembling hand |
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When I felt the light |
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I was worse than bored |
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I stole the doctor's scalpel and |
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I slit the cord |
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Refrain: I was a |
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Catholic boy, |
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Redeemed through pain, |
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Not through joy |
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I was two months early they put me under glass |
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I screamed and cursed their children when the nurses passed |
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Was convicted of theft when |
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I slipped from the womb |
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They led me straight from my mother to a cell in the |
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Tombs Repeat |
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Refrain They starved me for weeks, they thought they'd teach me fear |
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I fed on cellmates' dreams, it gave me fine ideas |
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When they cut me loose, the time had served me well |
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I made allies in heaven, |
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I made comrades in |
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Hell I was a |
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Catholic child |
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The blood ran red |
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The blood ran wild |
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I make angels dance and drop to their knees |
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When I enter a church the feet of statues bleed |
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I understand the fate of all my enemies |
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Just like |
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Christ in the |
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Garden of |
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Gethsemane |
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Repeat Refrain |
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I watched the sweetest psalm stolen by the choir |
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I dreamed of martyrs' bones hanging from a wire |
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I make a contribution, |
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I get absolution |
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I make a resolution to purify my soul |
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Repeat Refrain |
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They can't touch me now |
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I got every sacrament behind me: |
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I got baptism, |
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I got communion, |
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I got penance, |
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I got extreme unction |
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I've got confirmation ' |
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Cause I'm a |
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Catholic child |
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The blood ran red |
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The blood ran wild! |
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Now I'm a |
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Catholic man |
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I put my tongue to the rail whenever |
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I can. |
