Titus Andronicus - My Time Outside the Womb lyrics

The first thing you see is the light
Then you focus on a man in
A mask with a knife
As he cuts you away from everything
You thought you knew about life
Now you're in your mother's arms
Wrinkled and wet
You'll spend the rest of your life
Trying to hard to forget
That you met the world naked and screaming
And that's how you'll leave it

In Riverside Hospital, on a July morning
With a push and a pull
This is how I found out
I wasn't quite so invulnerable
It put the fear of God in me
When I heard my daddy say
"one mistake is all that it takes"

I ended up at Central School, 1993


And met a certain kid named
Sarim at the library he said
"they're ain't nothing about this
Place that's elementary"
I learned to play the guitar
In the seventh grade
In order to convince everyone
I was a renegade
That's when I learned, in Glen Rock
Everybody calls a spade a spade
I couldn't fool anyone
I couldn't even fool myself
I was just another book on the shelf
Nothing else