I was gripped with a bitter fear,
worried the one thing that I loved,
back when I was just a kid,
might now never be enough,
That the body I was in,
might belong to someone else, someone kinder, someone surer, someone
innocent, 
young and beautiful, someone purer.

I was scratching at my skin,
hoping the changes would begin,
but what layed beneath was blind, would've caused
what the [bad word] was I thinking of?
won't you take me down to the creek?
wash away our sins and sleep, I feel so tired
as though I might not wake at all on the other side
thats no way to go

Oh my dear one, 
bathe me in your glow.
 cut out my lonely heart
 and bury it in the snow
 nothing really means nothing
 is the saddest thing I know
 so deliver me from sin
 and give me rock and roll

 Give me rock and roll

 And in the morning there'll be hope
 and in the morning there'll be light
 and if I sleep and dream up a system
 a solution
 to fend off perils of the night
 [bad word] on in, I'll be born again
 born again as someone else
 Someone kinder
 Someone surer
 Someone beautiful
 someone purer

 and when I am you'll know
 and when I am you'll know

 Oh my dear one,
 the devil knows my name
 will [bad word] 
 and wash away my pain?
 for I was once a kid
 with a pure and innocent soul
 so deliver me from sin
 and give me rock and roll

 Give me rock and roll
 Give me rock and roll
 a pure and innocent soul
 and a pure and innocent soul

 Give me rock and roll
 Give me rock and roll
 and a pure and innocent soul
 and a pure and innocent soul