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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