Living In The Past Lyrics

Peasant St. Brigette's Catholic School, 1970 Mother Scholastica preaching the hard-line according to Rome We wanted love and they gave us fear We wanted Pink Floyd and they gave us hymns Incense with a load of nonsense It was absolutely obvious they were all living in the past Juvenile Crown Court, 1979 I sat thinking how I ended up here Until they asked me to swear on the Bible And it all came clear Brainwashed by ritual and whitewashed by lies I was an adolescent alcoholic with the Bible on my side Incense with a guilty conscience Incense from the past tense We're all living in the past Malibu Beach, California, 1990 Lesson 1: never give a Catholic 350 grand and put him in the sun They didn't teach us about money at our school, they taught us hymns And I can tell you the words but you wouldn't know what to sing Guess it's a Catholic thing Happy and I'm smiling Walking miles to walk on water