Joy and Pain歌词

CATHOLIC BOY (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 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 as I slid from the womb
They led me straight from my stroller to a cell in the tombs...
I was a Catholic boy...
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, comrades in Hell
I was a Catholic child...
With the grand red...the grand wild...
I make