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[Verse 1]
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My dad sold women's shoes and travelled nine months a year
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When he left my mom in ’71 I didn't shed one tear
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He was a man who married a teenage girl when he was 39
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A man like that doesn't want a wife, he wants a concubine
[Refrain]
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He moved her to Boston, away from her friends and family
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He isolated her, so in turn, she isolated me
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She went to bars and house parties, and left her infant all alone
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She joked that it was all right, ’cause in my crib she left the receiver of the phone
[Verse 2]
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He was a shithead father, who created a vengeful wife
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It's why I proudly say: When I was 14
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And saw X and the Subhumans at the Whiskey
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That was the night – it may sound trite, but punk rock saved my life
[Refrain]
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At 35, when my father said he never wanted me
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I remember that I didn't know him as well as his TV
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Other weekends I spent in my granddad's Pontiac
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At least he was proud to introduce me to his friends at the race track
[Bridge]
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He let me bet two-buck trifectas, and his friends became my teachers
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I didn't know I was the only eight-year-old in the Santa Anita bleachers
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Because a child doesn't know what normal is
[Verse 3]
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In Beverly Hills, I grew up feeling like a tourist
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'cause my friends' parents were millionaires, my mom was a manicurist
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She’d hang with the Factors and the Westside bourgeoisie
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Since she’d go out five nights a week, she got me my own TV
[Refrain]
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I found her porn and sex toys and began to realize then
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After she cooked dinner, she'd go out to fuck older wealthy men
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I never had a babysitter, I had a latchkey
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It’s so embarrassing: But she never threw me one birthday party
[Outro]
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So I spent my nights going to every punk show I could find
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My new home was Hollywood, around Selma and Vine
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The Cathay, the Olympic, and the Vex
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You see, punk rock was never just music to me, it was my life
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My parents were just relatives, my family was always NOFX
