I knew a woman once   giving birth to kittens and mice   And the kittens were born full of their brothers and sisters   And they were punished swiftly   though they didn't know why      They thought they were food   they did not know what they'd done      And I was a person once   sending off unread letters   receiving no reply   never bothering asking why   I had a heart once   full of fire and passion   but the summer took it away from me      And autumn has come to retrieve it      And I was a man once   When I was six-years-old   but now I am just a boy   pretentious and brash and bold   The kittens were murdered   thrown into burlap sacks   and weighted down with rocks   in a river deep and black      And they went to Heaven.   They went to Heaven.