Wasted Youth

from Altar Boys - Initial Demos by Altar Boys

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No one much likes kids,
Cussed and stole and lied, they did,
Sleeping under bridges,
Bastards of the world we live.
All our toys were living people,
Throwing bottles at pedophiles,
Crumbs on others' sofas,
High watching X-files.

And if mine mouth shall lie,
Please sow it shut with wires tied,
And if mine lustful eyes shall stray,
Please throw mine lustful eyes away.
And if my mind thinks something gay,
Please, run a jackhammer through my face,
And if I come in after curfew, God,
Please burn the neighborhood down.

Jesus died for my sins,
So I could sleep around and still go to Heaven,
Staying out past twelve,
Filled up to the brim.
Beans and franks out of styrofoam bowls,
Point-blank stares at our point-blank souls.
Such miserables as me and you,
We live much the way that animals do.

I feel as though everything
Has been lost on me,
Pragmatic morals passed down from
After school specials on TV.
Never caught-up in the gleam
Of the twenty-first century,
Such values are so foreign to me,
Our lives are such purely physical things.

So now I'm sober and one day older,
And there's still nothing that I'd have to offer,
Just another brick on my shoulder,
And a floor that's a little bit colder.

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from Altar Boys - Initial Demos, released September 9, 2018
Nick - lyrics, guitar, vocals, stylophone
Miles - bass
Roland - drums

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