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Children In Pieces Lyrics
Children in pieces
In Irish industrial schools
Nuns called mothers
And the Christian brothers
Kick the shit out of very frightened children
Judges and priests and police and cardinals,
They look the other way
When the weekend comes they’ll make use of those
Children in pieces
In Irish industrial schools
Nuns called mothers
And the Christian brothers
Kick the shit out of very frightened children
You say you want to go home
You say you want to be left alone
And so you turn to me
But instead of sympathy I find
My sentimental heart hardens
My sentimental heart hardens
Get your hands off me
Kid you must be bad luck
My sentimental heart hardens
In Irish industrial schools
Nuns called mothers
And the Christian brothers
Kick the shit out of very frightened children
They look the other way
When the weekend comes they’ll make use of those
In Irish industrial schools
Nuns called mothers
And the Christian brothers
Kick the shit out of very frightened children
You say you want to be left alone
And so you turn to me
But instead of sympathy I find
My sentimental heart hardens
My sentimental heart hardens
Kid you must be bad luck
My sentimental heart hardens
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I always feel like he's going to say "You say you want to go home. You don't want to stay."
I would say it's about his time in school as a kid, he had a rough time and wasn't it a very religious school?