Catholic Boy .......... Jim Carroll With Pearl Jam

Devil's Toe .......... Graeme Revell w/ Jim Caroll

Down By The Water .......... P.J. Harvey

What A Life .......... Rockers Hifi

I Am Alone .......... Jim Revell w/ Jim Carroll

People Who Died .......... The Jim Carroll Band

Riders On The Storm .......... The Doors

Dizzy .......... Green Apple Quickstep

It's Been Hard .......... Jim Revell w/ Jim Carroll

Coming Right Along .......... The Posies

Strawberry Wine .......... Massive Internal Complications

Star .......... The Cult

Dream Massacre .......... Graeme Revell

I've Been Down .......... Flea

Blind Dogs .......... Soundgarden

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 the Tombs

I was a Catholic boy
I was redeemed through pain
Not through joy

They starved me for weeks, they thought they'd teach me fear
I fed on cellmates' dreams, it gave me fine ideas
When they cut me loose, the time had served me well
I made allies in heaven, I made comrades in hell

I was a Catholic child
The blood ran red
The blood ran wild

I make angels dance and drop to their knees
When I enter a church the feet of statues bleed
I understand the fate of all my enemies
Just like Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

I was a Catholic boy
I was redeemed through pain
An not through joy

I watched the sweetest psalm stolen by our choir
I dreamed of martyrs' bones hanging from a wire
I make a contribution, I get absolution
I make a resolution to purify my soul

I'm a Catholic boy
Redeemed through pain
Not through joy

And they can't touch me now
I got every sacrament behind me
I got baptism, I got penance
I got communion, I got extreme unction
Man, I've got confirmation

I was a Catholic boy
Redeemed through pain
And not through joy

And now I'm a Catholic man
I put my tongue to the rail whenever I can

"Every crowd of younger has had its little games to prove if you're punk or not. My cousin in New York plays 'Chickie',
which is two cars heading towards each other at about 80 miles an hour. The first driver to swerve out of the way is of
course the chicken. On the Lower Eastside they'd make you press a lit cigarette onto your forearm and have it burn all the
way up to the filter without the slightest flinch. Here, in upper Manhattan, guys jump off cliffs into the Harlem river where
the water is literally shitty because right nearby are the giant sewer deposits where about half a million toilets empty
their goods daily."

I lost my heart, under the bridge
To that little girl, so much to me
And now I moan, and now I holler
She'll never know, just what I found

That blue eyed girl, she said "No more"
That blue eyed girl, became blue eyed whore
Down by the water, I took her hand
Just like my daughter, I'll see her again

Oh, help me, Jesus, come through the storm
I had to lose her, to do her harm
I heard her holler, I heard her moan
My lovely daughter, I took her home

Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water
Come back here, man, gimme my daughter

Yeah, everybody gonna say yeah
Big Daddy boutya

Didn't know where, didn't know when
Just asked to answer at ten
To the local go-learn
Put up my hand, wait my turn
But it never comes, I have to shout out
That's life and that's what it's all about
So through the comfort and the strife
What a life

Life, the ultimate stage
Learning to act from a very early age
Nothing is wrong 'cause nothing is right
Living your life, that's the ultimate fight now
I've grown a bit since ten
Even though I look back now and then
There were good times, there were bad
Some serious living to be had
No ties, some lies, and now and then some strife
Yeah, oh, yeah
What a life

Sometimes to look ahead, you need to look back
So you know where you're going and you're on the right track
So never lose your vision, displace your goal
Keep it running, don't allow it to get cold

And there in the distance
Where you can cut it without a knife
Can you feel it, can you hear it, oh, yeah
What a life

Do you feel in yourself that it's time to go
Live a life to lead, not go with the flow
And bring yourself to a promised land
In a world of choice, one you understand
You can be the narrator
Never the destroyer, more the creator
Like a scientist, explore your mind
Whether in a collage bar or standing on the front line
And through all the discomfort and through all the strife
Yeah, you know it
What a life

Original rockers on the case
Large, but not too in your face
Plenty of rhythm, big with the bass
Take your time 'cause there's no haste
To live the life you lead
Live the life you lead
What a life

"Bobby died of leukemia. He got it two years ago, but had such a strong body. He was always the best at sports that he kept
biding it off. They gave him six months at first, then he turned to trick and got better, even got out for a while. Though it
was a different person when you saw him. Then he went back in a year ago. Like his brother was telling me the line on his
hospital chart had felt straight down, in a perfect angle. I looked at his body and it was death for the first time in my
life. His face was thin and wrinkled, almost apelike. His hair just grey patches on his skull. He looked sixty years old and
he was sixteen. I couldn't believe how skinny his arms were. It was like having the skeleton of someone you know put in front
of you. I felt dazed out in the streets like I had just come out of a 4-hour movie I didn't understand. I thought about that
face all night, and death."

Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine

Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head
Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine
Two more friends that died

Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others
And I salute you brother

Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof
Tony thought that his rage was just some goof
But Herbie sure gave Tony some bitchen proof
"Hey," Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?"
But Tony couldn't fly, Tony died

Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

Brian got busted on a narco rap
He beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers
He said, "Hey, I know it's dangerous, but it sure beats Riker's"
But the next day he got offed by the very same bikers

Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine

Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head
Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine
Two more friends that died

Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others
And I salute you brother

Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out alone
Riders on the storm

There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If ya give this man a ride
Sweet memory will die
Killer on the road, yeah

Girl, ya gotta love your man
Girl, ya gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man, yeah

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out alone
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Let's ride!

There's a muzzle, and a vine
I swing back from time to time
There's a Camero, rusty red
That all my best friends drive in

Take off at the light
Straight for the barricade
In a room with a god-awful view
Maybe just insane for a while

Can you smell summer air?
Take me where they left the light on
Getting close, almost there
If that fuzzy silver badge don't beat us there

My head's dizzy and I can't get away
I'm good today - Leave the light on

There's a laugh, and a look
Like something in a storybook
I caught the eye of Electro-Woman
And dynamite I blow up slow

Like a sinner I figured it out
I wrote a book and Jesus wasn't in it
Try to make the world stop from spinning
Or maybe just pretend for a while

Can you smell summer air?
Take me where they left the light on
Getting close, almost there
If the fuzzy silver badge don't beat us there

My head's dizzy and I can't get away
I'm good today - Leave the light on

"It's been hard. The writing, lately, just all comes in beautiful fragments like nods now. So high. Guess I'd rather sleep
forever, to sleep and forget. But the neds they keep buzzing in my ear and the heat and the dreams."

Freed the daytime with indifference
Watch the twilight starve the sun
Shuffle home against the darkness
Turn the key and bite your tongue

And please be strong
You don't know it, but you're coming right along

Call belated, leave a message
Wait for hours just to talk
Feel like slowly getting blown off
Stretch your eyes, invite the clock

And please be strong
You don't know it, but you're coming right along

Cry as if to say you're sorry
Sight a life and hate your own
Try to think of what to mention
Leave the television on

And please be strong
You don't know it but you're coming right along

Strawberry wine
There's a house on a hill
But it isn't mine
I remember it used to be

Flown away days turn a river of steeps
To wash the taste of salt that the sun only gave to me, baby
Like fruit of your tree

And after all that's been around I ain't never comin' down
Guess I've always been around and I ain't never comin' down

Far away, darling
If I have you to lose
But you're not mine
I remember you used to

I blew my mind that I put in the sky
I won't feel the way we wept all over the place
The need I still hide

And after all that's been around I ain't never comin' down
I guess I've always been around and I ain't never comin' down

Yeah, I believe in freedom
Freedom is a vision, her found religion
I humble myself just to get some respect

I kiss her sandled foot
She's my holy pearl
The ghetto in your mind
Is treating her unkind

Star, I'll reach you if I try
Riot girl, show me the truth
Star, I'll reach you if I try
Riot girl, show me your truth

I believe in liberation, won't you liberate me?
Come on and take me, I took no holy vow
Won't you hold this pagan soul?

I kiss her sandled foot
She's my holy pearl
The ghetto in your mind
Is treating her unkind

Star, I'll reach you if I try
Riot girl, show me the truth
Star, I'll reach you if I try
Riot girl, show me your truth

I believe in freedom
Freedom is a vision

Star, I'll reach you if I try
Riot girl, show me the truth
Star, I'll reach you if I try
Riot girl, show me your truth

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I tumble into space
Try to stop the fall
My body ripped and tore
I could have floated in space

Could have floated

I stumble 'round my home
I am on the outside
My legs and arms are lead
Feeling love from no one

Could have floated

My head weighs ninety pounds and I've been down
My friends are aliens and I've been down

Well now, I've got no wife
Cut a lizard's tail, it grows back to life
I killed some sleepless nights
My heart's torn to pieces

Could have floated

I am the funny guy
Yeah, I've been down
I am the big rock star
Yeah, I've been down

I'll never be the same 'cause I've been inside out
And I wanna be an animal and take care of my own

My head weighs ninety pounds and I've been down
My friends are aliens and I've been down

I know what it's like 'cause I've been down
Devil sneaks in and deals and I've been down

Run away now, it's Halloween
Shave your head and burn your sheets
Evil could be right next door
What do blind dogs believe?
I don't wanna know

Following blind

Run away now, it's Halloween
The safe bet is on your knees
Bow your head to the Trinity
That's what the blind dogs believe
But I've heard that before

Following blind

Dead on my feet while my nightmare walks
I fell asleep where the freeway talks
Suffer to swim and dying to sink
These things in the air, they'll make you think