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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... I was Redeemed, detained...I be joy... I was two months early, they put me under-class I screamed and cursed at children with the nurse's pass Was convicted of theft as I slid from the womb They took me straight from my stroller to a cell in the tombs... I was a Catholic boy... Redeemed, detained...I be 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 up in Heaven, and comrades 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 the statue bleed I understand the faith of all my enemies With that Christ and a God, it's never me... I'm a Catholic boy... I was Redeemed, detained...and I be 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, detained...I be joy... And they can't touch me now, I got every size of the... They got Baptism, they got Penance I got Communion, I got extreme... Damn...I got Confirmation... I was a Catholic boy... Redeemed, detained...and I be joy... And now, I'm a Catholic man... I put my tounge to the rail whenever I can... |
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I lost my heart under the bridge
That little girl So much to me And now I moan, and now I holler She'll never know just what I found That blue-eyed girl she said no more And that blue-eyed girl became blue -eyed whore Down by the water I took her hand Just like my daughter See her again Oh, help me Jesus come through this storm I had to lose her to do her harm I heard her holler, I heard her moan My lovely daughter I took her home Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water Come back here, man, give me my daughter Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water Come back here, man, give me my daughter |
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Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug On 26 reds and a bottle of wine Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old He looked like 65 when he died He was a friend of mine *Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died They were all my friends, and they died G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed They were two more friends of mine Two more friends that died / I miss 'em--they died *Repeat Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs Judy jumped in front of a subway train Eddie got slit in the jugular vein And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others, And I salute you brother/ This song is for you my brother *Repeat Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof Tony thought that his rage was just some goof But Herbie sure gave Tony some bitchen proof "Hey," Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?" But Tony couldn't fly . . . Tony died *Repeat Brian got busted on a narco rap He beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers He said, hey, I know it's dangerous, but it sure beats Riker's But the next day he got offed by the very same bikers |
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Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm Into this house we're born Into this world we're thrown Like a dog without a bone An actor out on loan Riders on the storm There's a killer on the road His brain is squirmin' like a toad Take a long holiday Let your children play If ya give this man a ride Sweet memory will die Killer on the road, yeah Girl ya gotta love your man Girl ya gotta love your man Take him by the hand Make him understand The world on you depends Our life will never end Gotta love your man, yeah Wow! Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Into this house we're born Into this world we're thrown Like a dog without a bone An actor out alone Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Riders on the storm |
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There's a muzzle and a vine
I swing back from time to time There's a camero, rusty red That all my best friends drive in Take of at the light Straight for the baracade In a room wiht a god-awful view Maybe just insane for a while Can you smell summer air Take me where they left the light on Getting close, almost there If that fuzzy silver badge don't beat us there My head's dizzy and I can't get away I'm good today Leave the light on There's a laugh, and a look Like something in a storybook I cought the eye of Electro-Woman And dynomite I blow up slow Like a sinner I figured it out I wrote a book and Jesus wasn't in it Try to make the world stop spinning Or maybe just pretend for a while Can you smell summer air Take me where they left the light on Getting close, almost there If that fuzzy silver badge don't beat us there My head's dizzy and I can't get away |
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Freed the daytime with indifference
Watch the twilight starve the sun Shuffle home against the darkness Turn the key and bite your tongue And please be strong You don't know it but you're coming right along Call belated, leave a message Wait for hours just to talk Feel like slowly getting blown off Stretch your eyes, invite the clock And please be strong You don't know it but you're coming right along Please be strong You don't know it but you're coming right along Cry as if to say you're sorry Sight a life and hate your own Try to think of what to mention Leave the television on... And please be strong You don't know it but you're coming right along Please be strong You don't know it but you're coming right along You don't know it but you're Coming right along Coming right along Coming right along |
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| 4:00 |
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| 12. |
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I believe in freedom
Freedom is a vision Her found religion I humble myself Just to get some respect I kiss her sandled foot She's my holy pearl the Ghetto in your mind treating her unkind Star I'll reach you if I try Riot girl show me your truth Star I'll reach you if I try Riot girl show me your truth I believe in liberation won't you liberate me come on and take me I took no holy vow won't you hold this pagan soul hold my soul |
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| 4:39 |
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Run away, now it’s Halloween
Shave your head and burn you sheets, evil could be right next door What do blind dogs believe? I don’t want to know Following blind Run away, now it’s Halloween The safe bet is on your knees, bow your head to the Trinity, that’s what blind dogs believe But I’ve heard that before, Following blind Dead on my feet while my nightmare walks, I fell asleep where the freeway talks, suffer to swim and dying to sink These things in the air, they will make you think |
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