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