Betrayed by my mother in the easy summer days
    My father home from work at 3:00 drags me
    Kicking and screaming to the whipping post.
    They never understood my rebellion.

    my rebellion was ******* all!
    I was forbidden to see Westside Story
    I read the play from the library
    my father caught me and was angry?

    the catholic church can go straight to hell
    and use their fortune off the back of the poor
    to ransom their way to the heaven they offer
    to everyone as their own carnival.    

    I drag others into my whirlpool
    I want to die in my confusion...
    I want to fix my broken parts and return
    To a corrected life in a straight line.

    I always aligned with the quirky ones
    where I always felt myself and real
    not correct and punctual, happy...
    no going back to squareville. Done.

    Launched upon the pinball table once again
    I betray my wife and kids and enter an abyss
    Guilt that could crush God kept at bay
    with vallium and beer.  Gentle women who
    cared and gave me sanctuary saved me from me.