Growing Up in Springfield

When I was fourteen

I fell in love with her

In metal shop

She said Kaia come pray with me

So we sat on her bed

And we held our hands together

She told me I needed God

I told her I just needed her

When I was fifteen

I liked to start fires

And drive my parents truck

To the Jasper store

Things were out of control

I couldn't stop to see

The others, the ones like me

Were not far from reach

When I was sixteen

She said to me

"You have a demon possession,"

I said "What the fuck does that mean?"

She said she couldn't be my friend

Those were the worst years of my life

And all the hick boys loved to harass me

So I flaunted my hatred of the flag

My mother cried when I shaved my head