[ti:Catholic Boy (LP版)] [ar:The Jim Carroll Band] [al:Catholic Boy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Catholic Boy - The Jim Carroll Band [00:07.63]I was born in a pool [00:09.13]Left in my mother's stand [00:11.25]I spat at that surgeon and his tremblin' hand [00:14.75]When I felt for life I was the nursery boy [00:17.93]I stole the doctors scalpel and I slit the cord [00:22.52]I was a Catholic boy [00:25.11]Redeemed through pain not through joy [00:32.39]I was two months early they put me under glass [00:35.47]I screamed and cursed at children when the nurses passed [00:39.25]Was convicted of theft when I slid from the womb [00:42.58]They led me straight from my stroller [00:44.27]To a cell in the tombs [00:47.27]I was a Catholic boy [00:49.85]I was redeemed through pain not through joy [00:57.16]They starved me for weeks they thought they'd teach me fear [01:00.23]I fed on cell mates trees it gave me flyin' ideas [01:04.12]When they cut me loose the time it served you well [01:07.51]I made allies in heaven on the come rades in hell [01:11.96]I was a Catholic child [01:14.70]With the grand red the grand wild [01:46.30]I make angels dance and drop to their knees [01:49.92]When I enter a church the feet of statue bleed [01:53.26]I understand the faith of all my enemies [01:57.07]With that Christ and the God it's never me [02:01.61]I'm a Catholic boy [02:04.27]Redeemed through pain and not through joy [02:11.07]I watched his sweetest psalms stolen by the choir [02:14.55]I dreamed of all his bones hangin' from a wire [02:18.15]I take the contribution I get absolution [02:21.54]I make the resolution to verify my soul [02:26.53]I'm a Catholic boy [02:29.37]Redeemed through pain not through joy [02:33.99]And they can't touch me now I got every size of the [02:36.87]They are not get practice [02:39.12]They got Baptism I got Penance [02:41.69]I got Communion I got extreme [02:44.43]I got confirmation [02:47.54]I am a Catholic child [02:49.75]Lot of brain [02:51.20]Redeemed through love and wow they [02:53.57]And now I'm a Catholic man [02:56.73]I put my tongue to the rail whenever I can