I hated high school, I prayed it would end   The jocks and their girls, it was their world, I didn't fit in   Mama said, "Baby, it's the best school that money can buy   Hold your head up, be strong, c'mon Mary, try"      I stole mama's car on a Sunday and left home for good   Moved in with my friends in the city, in a bad neighborhood   Charles was a dancer, he loved the ballet   And Kimmy sold pot and read Kerouac and Hemingway      Drag queens in limousines   Nuns in blue jeans   Dreamers with big dreams   All took me in      Charley and I flipped burgers to cover the rent   And Bourbons at happy hour for .35 cents   One day before work we got drunk and danced in the rain   They fired us both, they said   "Don't y'all come back here again"      Drag queens in limousines   Nuns in blue jeans   Dreamers with big dreams   All took me in      My dad went to college, and he worked for the state   He never quit nothing and he wanted me to graduate   My brother and sister both play in the marching band   They tell me they miss me, but I know they don't understand      Sometimes you got do   What you gotta do   And hope that the people you love   Will catch up with you      Yeah, drag queens in limousines   Nuns in blue jeans   Dreamers with big dreams   Poets and AWOL marines   Actors and bar flys   Writers with dark eyes   Drunks that philosophize