It's the ballad of a Catholic boy   Full of Catholic hopes and joys   Genuflect and say your prayers   Confess your sins and God will share   Bastard Grammar School   God fearing   Discipline and saving beatings   But no one knows where we're going to   No one knows where we've been   No one taught anything at school   As a child made confirmation   Choose your Saint   Then choose your station   Hurt the child   Then shove it love   It's just violence in a velvet glove   Sunday, Church,   Confess to Father, repent your sins   Confess to Father   Four Hail Mary's, be forgiven   There's something inside, I'm driven   Just when I thought I'd lost my way   I'm feeling closer now   I'm getting closer now   Closer to God