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Summer was almost over, I was at the threshold of my lifeAnd I didn't have any plans at allAll I'd ever done was play in the woods all dayAnd Dungeons and Dragons all night longAnd when next August came I would be turnin' eighteenAnd I'd probably have to try to find a jobSo like most kids do I decided to go to schoolSo that I could put that offAnd when I told my parents the newsSome news I thought that they might likeWell, the look in their eyes was nothin' but surpriseAnd the first word that they said was, "Why?"The first year went by just like a bad, bad dreamSome curse had turned me into a beastAnd I was too afraid to ever leave my roomFor fear of what the sun might do to meBut I don't want to talk about that here anymoreNo, I've said everything I wanna sayAs the year came to its end, the curse it was liftedI guess sometimes monsters do get slainAnd that summer I called up ValerieSongtexteThis girl I'd met five years before at the skating rinkAnd it didn't take her long to fall in love with meSometimes I think that's just what a monster needsShe gave me some tapes of some local punk bandsAnd more importantly, the Violent FemmesAnd I began to see what would become of meAnd I owe her my life for thatWhen school started again she helped me move inWe saw a guy who look just like Robert SmithShe said, "My dear, you know you're gonna love this yearAnd you should become friends with him"And that's just what I did, yes, I made so many friendsAnd I convinced my best friend Joe to come with meTogether we became so different, so the sameLike a newborn cow spreading out its wingsAnd that winter I met entropyAs things started to fall apart on meI broke that girl's heart and Joe went homeIt's hard to fly when you first get your wingsAfter Christmas break, well my room, it was so emptyIt seemed like everybody had changedWell maybe it was me, maybe I was forgettingThe person that I used to beOr maybe I was just waking upTo become the person I was to becomeEither way I knew that my school days were throughAnd that I couldn't stay where I wasBut I had nowhere else to goAnd I knew I could never go homeAnd each night in my bed I counted questions in my headThis was the first time I really felt alone Aus Songtexte Mania