Love And Happiness

I was born with the apple in my mouth

A chocolate saint in the fat man's house

With a monkey's ache and a papal hat

Fed promises that all broke like glass

So 'scuze me if I can't fathom this

I wasn't built for all your Love and happiness

I was built for splitting rails

For powder blue girls with feathered tails

For whaling ships and marking cards

And neon colored shooting bars

Like St Peter's ghost with a ghetto frown

To hang from stop signs upside down

From a factory girl and a sailor's kiss

With hello on their skin and goodbye on their lips

So 'scuze me if I seem afraid of this

I wasn't born for all this Love and happiness

I was raised a pilgrim's son

Saying I'm sorry for nothing I done

To raise sons that fall and dogs that bite

And dreams that try and cheat the night

By Union men that all headed south

Waving oily rags that could ignite your house

From a traitor's hand with a whiskey spark

And kin that fear their God and the dark

So 'scuze me if I seem afraid of this

I wasn't built for all this Love and happiness