Ceschi - Black and White and Red All Over lyrics

I am a product of
Catholic school ruler beatings
Suspensions and foolish cheating
If I mention the ascension of
Christ in a sentence i'm probably kidding
This is a song about confronting my demons
And leading them back into undeveloped
Regions of my brain
So the sequences stop repeating

On the phone Abuela tells
Me "dios te bendiga"
But, I feel like God took back his blessings
Ever since the moment I started breathing
And seeing the lack of validity surrounding
All this mythology fed to me
Fuck it, even if I wanted to believe
I could never make a false
God into my centerpiece
When I was an altar boy I saw Father Pat
Drinking wine out of bottles in the back
I saw that fucker Brother Rich get fired for
Touching little kids during
After school class
And when i heard that Father Conrad
Died of AIDS in 1990
I started realizing that I couldn't
Trust my church entirely

Mother Superior jumped the gun
In the name of the Father
The Holy Ghost and the Son
I present a toast to the nuns
Falling in bad jokes like that one
What's black and white and red all over?
Hope is all done

God helps those who help themselves
God helps those with all the wealth
But God never helped me in my God damn life
So I gotta get up off the shelf
And I gotta do it fast
Before the past catches up to me
Sucking me back in it's trap
I always wanted to believe
In a beautiful heaven
But the history of my religion
Made it completely irrelevant

Shouts to the missionaries
Raping the women, enslaving the men
Shout out to animals buried
Apparently they never got to heaven
And a final shout out goes to the popes
And priests and the bishops
Abusing their power
Everybody knows real gangsters rock
Robes and mitre crowns

Mother Superior jumped the gun
In the name of the Father
The Holy Ghost and the Son
I present a toast to the nuns
Falling in bad jokes like that one
What's black and white and red all over?
Hope is all done