Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy

I was born in a pool, they made my mother stand And I spat on that surgeon and his trembling hand When I felt the light I was worse than bored I stole the doctor s 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 their nurses passed I was convicted of theft as I slipped from the womb They led me straight from my mother to a cell in