Mick Brady: Lyrics

I remember the smack of the leather strap

When Joey walked straight into the teacher’s trap

But it was worse by far in the afternoons

When he was kept behind in the changing rooms

While the marks on his hands would heal real fast

The scars inside were there to last

Why did they do it?

Did they think they’d a right

To use innocent kids

Any way that they liked?

In the name of The Church

In the name of The State

In the name of God

In the name of The Faith

 

When Joey left school he was still too young

To understand the damage they’d done

He thought that now he’d be able to do

All the things he dreamed he’d do

He thought that now that he’d be free

To be the man he wanted to be

 

But he was troubled and wild, always out on the edge

There was stuff that stayed locked up tight in his head

Wherever he was he just couldn’t fit in

He never felt his body belonged to him

He was always avoiding and always denying

And at night he dreamed the dreams of the dying

 

© Mick Brady