NEVER BEEN YOUNG (Music: Mark Zanandrea-Words: J Neo Marvin)
Originally released on MAYDAY, World Service/Rough Trade Deutschland 1994
Tell me something about your childhood:
A life that was not my own.
Father, teacher, God and country
Hailstones raining down upon me.
I had me an education
In all the finest Southern values:
The steady rhythm of back-breaking work
The thrill of perpetual denial.
And I don’t feel old ‘cause I’ve never been young.
No bliss in my innocent past
Just sentimental lies and violence.
I was a simpleton in a corrupt and stupid world.
Innocence was a handicap
And I was aiming to lose that fast.
And when the right time did come,
I did not mess around, no.
Cradle nostalgia buffs
Longing for a life that never was
Cling to their censored memories.
There’s something faintly sick about it.
And I don’t feel old ‘cause I’ve never been young.
This is the mighty furnace that forged me
All bent and twisted, with a really shitty attitude.
Hi-de-ho!
© 1994 Undulant Rhetoric (BMI)