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CATHOLIC BOY (Jim Carroll - "Basketball Diaries" soundtrack)
[00:07]I was born in a pool
[00:09]Left in my mother's stand
[00:11]I spat at that surgeon and his tremblin' hand
[00:14]When I felt for life, I was the nursery boy
[00:17]I stole the doctors scalpel and I slit the cord...
[00:22]I was a Catholic boy...
[00:24]I was redeemed through pain, not through joy...
[00:31]I was two months early, they put me under glass
[00:34]I screamed and cursed at children when the nurses passed
[00:38]Was convicted of theft as I slid from the womb
[00:41]They led me straight from my stroller to a cell in the tombs...
[00:45]I was a Catholic boy...
[00:48]Redeemed through pain, not through joy...
[00:55]They starved me for weeks, they thought they'd teach me fear
[00:58]I fed on cell-mates trees, it gave me flyin' ideas
[01:02]When they cut me loose, the time it served you well
[01:05]I made allies in Heaven, comrades in Hell
[01:09]I was a Catholic child...
[01:12]With the grand red...the grand wild...
[01:49]I make angels dance and drop to their knees
[01:52]When I enter a church the feet of statue bleed
[01:56]I understand the faith of all my enemies
[01:59]With that Christ and the God, it's never me...
[02:03]I'm a Catholic boy...
[02:05]I was redeemed through pain and not through joy...
[02:13]I watched His sweetest psalms stolen by the choir
[02:16]I dreamed of all his bones hangin' from a wire
[02:20]I take the contribution, I get absolution
[02:23]I make the resolution to verify my soul...
[02:27]I'm a Catholic boy...
[02:31]Redeemed through pain, not through joy...
[02:34]And they can't touch me now, I got every size of the...
[02:39]They got Baptism, I got Penance
[02:41]I got Communion, I got extreme...
[02:44]Man...I got Confirmation...
[02:48]I was a Catholic boy...
[02:50]Redeemed through pain and not through joy...
[02:54]And now, I'm a Catholic man...
[02:57]I put my tongue to the rail whenever I can...