Catholic Boy - 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