Montage (In Three Parts): Montage, Pt. 3: Gimme the Ball

The worst thing in school was every time the teacher called on me

I’d be hard! I’d be hard!

Really! I'd had to lean against the desk, like this. And the teacher would say

"Stand up straight!"

I can’t, I have a pain in my side!

"Stand up straight!"

Or walking down the halls, you’d have to walk, like this

With all your books stacked up in front of you

Yeah, I thought it was only me! I thought I was a sex maniac!

You are!

I did too. I mean, it didn’t go down for three years

And the bus. The bus was the worst. I’d just look at a bus and

Bingo!

And then there was the time I was making out in the backseat with Sally Ketchum. We were necking and I was feeling her boobs and feeling her boobs. And after about an hour or so, she said

"Ooh, don’t you wanna feel anything else?"

And I suddenly thought to myself, "No, I don’t." It was probably the first time I realized I was homosexual. I got so depressed, because I thought being gay meant being a bum all the rest of my life

Goodbye twelve

Goodbye thirteen

Hello love

Early to bed

Early to rise

Your broad goes out with other guys

A diaphragm

I thought a diaphragm was up here

The ugliest boy asked me to Prom

I stayed home

Shit! Made it through high school without growing tits!

Steve McQueen out!

Nureyev in!

I got Nancy's picture

Annabelle's locket

Cynthia's ring

And Lucy's pants

I got nothing

Head on collision

Eddie got killed

What am I gonna say when he calls on me?

My only adolesence

My only adolesence

My only

Adolesence

My only

Adolesence

My only

Adolesence

Suddenly I'm seventeen and

Suddenly I’m seventeen and

Suddenly I’m seventeen and

Suddenly

There’s a lot I am not

Certain of

Goodbye twelve, goodbye thirteen

Hello

Wah, wah wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah

Doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo ah

Doo dit, dit doo dit, dit doo dit, dit doo dit

Du de du de du de du de doo dit

Gimme the ball, gimme the ball, gimme the ball, yeah

Gimme the ball, gimme the ball, gimme the ball, yeah

I was always running around shouting

"Gimme the ball, gimme the ball, gimme the ball", yeah

I was so enthusiastic, I was into everything

The yearbook was filled with my pictures

And I was lucky 'cause I got

A scholarship to college!

A scholarship to college!

So I went (So he went)

Yes, I went (Yes he went)

So I’m gonna be this kindergarten teacher

Imagine me, this kindergarten teacher?

And I thought Shit (Shit Richie)

Shit! (Shit Richie)

What are you gonna be

When you get shoved outta here

Honey, ain’t nobody gonna be standing there

With no scholarship to life

And I was scared (Shit Richie)

Scared (Shit Richie)

Scared (Shit Richie)

Scared! (Shit Richie)

My braces gone

My pimples gone

My childhood gone, goodbye

Goodbye twelve, goodbye thirteen

Goodbye fourteen, goodbye fifteen

Goodbye sixteen, goodbye seventeen

Hello love

Go to it, go to it

And now life really begins

Go to it

And now life really begins

Go to it

And now life really begins

Go to it

And now life really begins

Go to it, go to it