Catholic Boy

歌曲 Catholic Boy
歌手 Jim Carroll
专辑 Catholic Boy

歌词

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