I hated high school, I prayed it would end

The jocks and their girls, it was their world, I didn't fit in

Mama said, "Baby, it's the best school that money can buy

Hold your head up, be strong, c'mon Mary, try"



I stole mama's car on a Sunday and left home for good

Moved in with my friends in the city, in a bad neighborhood

Charles was a dancer, he loved the ballet

And Kimmy sold pot and read Kerouac and Hemingway



Drag queens in limousines

Nuns in blue jeans

Dreamers with big dreams

All took me in



Charley and I flipped burgers to cover the rent

And Bourbons at happy hour for .35 cents

One day before work we got drunk and danced in the rain

They fired us both, they said

"Don't y'all come back here again"



Drag queens in limousines

Nuns in blue jeans

Dreamers with big dreams

All took me in



My dad went to college, and he worked for the state

He never quit nothing and he wanted me to graduate

My brother and sister both play in the marching band

They tell me they miss me, but I know they don't understand



Sometimes you got do

What you gotta do

And hope that the people you love

Will catch up with you



Yeah, drag queens in limousines

Nuns in blue jeans

Dreamers with big dreams

Poets and AWOL marines

Actors and bar flys

Writers with dark eyes

Drunks that philosophize