The Brook Lee Catastrophe - A Devil's Truth lyrics

By the time you read this letter You'll be old enough to know I was six months your mother's senior When I turned 15 years old It's been so long, so long She hitchhiked up from Oceanside Found her way to my front door We were kids making a mess Of making love down on the floor From the moment we first met We had belonged to other people And she didn't have the heart to start the part Of asking me to be faithful She was so wrong, so wrong When she told me about you I quit high school and joined the Corps I was a kid making a mess of making plans For love and war And lies, lies, lies, lies, lies are the devil's truths And life, life, life, life, life is an angel's proof That's how you became my son With or without my blood You are the spitting image of a lie I fell for once