I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance

I don't know what you've been dreaming about tonight Carrie
You've hardly touched your dinner
Now have some pie
It makes me have pimples, Mama
Nonsense. As Peter says,
"The only beauty that matters is the precious light that comes from within."

Mama, don't you think it's time I should try to get along?
Whatever are you going on about Carrie?
Being different is the Lord's blessing
Mama, people think I'm strange
All the kids have called me names

Well then just don't listen to them
It is written, "He who hears My voice alone shall be saved."
Mama can't we stop and talk?
There's this boy named Tommy Ross
Carrietta
I've been invited to the Prom
Prom?

I never dreamed that I could go
When he first asked and I said no
He asked me twice
He asked me twice

And so I finally told him yes
I thought if I could make my dress
I might look nice
I might look nice

I know I'm not like all the others
Sometimes I dream in colors
Sometimes I even think I'm lovely
Nobody feels the things that I do
Mama, please I'm just not like you
Maybe I'll find someone to love me

Tommy's a very nice boy and he'll have me home by midnight
It's Saturday
I've accepted, Mama
I've accepted

I remember how those boys could dance
Pressing close on Friday nights
They could sweep me away

Mama?
Oh how those boys were demons of romance
In their cars we chased the lights
I know just how boys will behave

Not this boy mama!
He isn't like the others
He's nice, you'll see, really you will
Everyone isn't bad, Mama
Everything's not a sin!

Oh how your father whispered in my ear
First the kiss and then the touch
Mixing lies with the truth

He would sigh and try to draw me near
Oh he'd swear he cared so much
That's what the boys do

They'll make promises
They will break your heart
Then they'll laugh at you
Watching you fall apart
Don't you think that I know?
Don't you think this has happened before?
It's the smell of the blood that will drive them mad
Chasing you like a whore!

No!
Don't you know their game?
Have you lost your mind
Can't you see Satan's passion has made you blind
And this boy's like the rest
And they're all like the serpents who crawl
You can beg all you want to but I recall

How your father came to me that night
That doesn't mean that the same thing will happen to me!
With the smell of smoke and gin
Give me the chance and you'll see
With a lust in his eyes
And he took me and touched me
I tried to fight

Mama, please, listen
You don't hear a word that I've said
Satan gave your father sin
Sometimes I wish you were dead!
And the sin never died

Mama, please stop!
You're not going
I've already said that I would, I said yes
Then say no
Tell him you changed your mind
Mama come back
The rain's coming in
I have to close the windows
I'll get them!
Ah! No! Witch!

I am not afraid of you at all
I have nothing left to lose
I have power I can use
Nothing you can say or do
Will ever stop me again