(Jim Carroll - "Basketball Diaries" soundtrack)



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...