I knew a woman once giving birth to kittens and mice And the kittens were born full of their brothers and sisters And they were punished swiftly though they didn't know why They thought they were food they did not know what they'd done And I was a person once sending off unread letters receiving no reply never bothering asking why I had a heart once
full of fire and pa**ion but the summer took it away from me And autumn has come to retrieve it And I was a man once When I was six-years-old but now I am just a boy pretentious and brash and bold The kittens were murdered thrown into burlap sacks and weighted down with rocks in a river deep and black And they went to Heaven. They went to Heaven.