I was born in the heart of Dublin
To a Holy book full of rules
Made get on our knees every Sunday with the other fools


We were warped by the Christian Brothers
In the cell blocks at our schools

Get a hand print on your skin
From a glove of jewels


Go hit me now
That I'm twice your size
Brushed off the accusations

And bowed before your lies

This is the city that raised me

With the religion they gave me
Now I'm old enough to know my own mind
And it was leaving that saved me

I've seen so much that has changed me
So just break with your past
Feed your own mind

This Irish son has moved with the times

Weddings deaths or baptizing children

That's my debt paid to the church
I don't need that kind of salvation
When I get hurt


Don't fill my head with sermons
And force me to believe


This is the city that raised me
With the religion they gave me

Now I'm old enough to know my own mind
But it was leaving that saved me
I've seen so much that has changed me

So just break with your past
Feed your own mind
Cos' this Irish son has moved with the times


Our father who art in heaven
Come down here and make your presence known

We can't do it on our own
The lunatics let run the asylum
How can we find peace inside your home

When you can't trust your own

This is the city that raised me

With the religion they gave me
Now I'm old enough to know my own mind
But it was leaving that saved me

I've seen so much that has changed me
So just break with your past
Feed your own mind

Cos' this Irish son has moved with the times
Cos' this Irish son has moved with the times