I Was a Teenage Christian
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Picture the spring of '72 Fourteen and a half and friendless I was a target from day one I liked the idea of a universe with justice Eating lunch alone as usual Two fairly cute girls come up to me Would I like to go to a meeting on the hill I was so bored, I said OK In a circle sitting on logs A crowd of friendly hip young people Seemingly unbound by the social rules Open hearts and big bright smiles I was greeted with warm affection They understood my disillusionment With the church and the human race They had a better way Hark the herald angels sing, hello misfits of the world Just how far will you go to end your loneliness? What odious club will you join? What ideals will you espouse Just so you could have someone to talk to? I was no stranger to spirits I did not belive that death was the end Once I heard the cool, calm voice of God When I was hyperventilating I was not a sucker for dogma But Jesus Christ, my soul was starving And these people all seemed to nice And their ecstatic joy was contagious So I got picked up at home in the evening And whisked away to a plain downtown building They served spaghetti and we sang and prayed Insisting all the while that they were not a church A man got up and said that he'd seen great things Great changes brought about by Jesus He'd seen hippies who'd cut off all their hair He'd seen surfers throw away their boards Hark the herald angels sing, hello misfits of the world Just how far will you go to end your loneliness? What odious club will you join? What ideals will you espouse Just so you could have something to belong to? "Yad yb yad ylraen erom eeht wollof dna Ylraed erom eeth evol, ylraelc erom eeth ees ot Yarp I sghiht eerht, Drol raed ho Yad yb yad, yad yb yad" I prayed every night for God to impress me I couldn't let down my great new friends I prayed for Jesus to come and convince me That he played by these people's rules This went on for about a month As a war raged on inside me Striving to improve and purify myself While a screaming inner voice grew louder How could I be saved if I had not sinned yet? How could I judge a life I had not lived yet? I read the fine print and the void burst open The ball and chain at the end of the rainbow I turned my back on the gates of Eden I expelled myself from paradise I took my chances with the lake of fire It's my party and I'll burn in Hell if I want to! Hark the herald angels sing, hello misfits of the world Just how far will you go to end your loneliness? What odious club will you join? What ideals will you espouse Just so you could have something to live for?
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