I know you think I'm mad

I know you think I'm mad, mum and dad!

I understand your thinking but

What was forced on you when you were young

Is what I missed out on: is my inkling!

You had it shoved down your throat without wanting

And I was kept out because you didn't want me

To have the same as you found lacking

So in your own best way you tried to save me

From having to put up with that bitter undertaking but

Here is the problem you will see: what you hated in your youth
I was needing when I was excluded from religious education

I didn't realize that was what I was seeking!

For many years along my path I was hiding

From something I could never understand

Let alone explain it! I couldn't tell you what I needed

I didn't even know what it was my self!

So after many years of following the wrong crowd and

Doing stuff that wouldn't make you proud

I was washed along the loneliest of beaches

In my own stupid way, I went totally astray and

Found myself in many situations

Very much unlike cream and peaches.

I'm sorry that I let you down: that was never my plan and

Somehow I just drifted back and forth

In dirty piles of flotsam and jetsam

Yet even though I was lost along the way

He finally found me one day

When even I could not face my life that way

A stranger came to our door and

Without even knowing it at all

That man brought with him no stranger

Because he brought me to salvation and 

Finally I did meet; and sobbed at Jesus' feet and

Begged Him to save me from those sins

That had dragged me down and then

Almost drowned me under their cold weight.

I asked and He replied, and turned that awful tide

When under water I was born again!