(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, detainedI 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, detainedI 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 redthe 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, detainedand 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, detainedI 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
DamnI got Confirmation

I was a Catholic boy
Redeemed, detainedand I be joy
And now, I'm a Catholic man
I put my tounge to the rail whenever I can