Father, Oh Father

Father, oh Father, just look what you’ve done

You’ve ruined the life of another man’s son

So, where is the justice for what you’ve done wrong?

When they hide you away and they move you along?

Hide you away and they move you along?

Betraying good people that held you in trust

Defiling their children to sate your own lust

Taking confessions, sins petty and small,

And you the very worst sinner of all

And you the very worst sinner of all

They sent you to lie on the therapist’s bed

To “Draw forth the demons that lurk in your head”

They called it addiction, I call it a crime

Without cassock or cottar, you’d surely do time.

Without cassock or cottar, you’d surely do time.

Sent to a parish an ocean away

“Turn a new page”, “start a new day”

A different city, a far distant shore

(And gifted a licence to do it once more

Gifted a licence to do it once more

And those bishops who knew of your evil and shame

Solely concerned to save their own name,

By placing themselves before what was right

Enabled the monster to hide in plain sight

Enabled the monster to hide in plain sight

Father, oh Father, just look what you’ve done

You’ve ruined the life of another man’s son

So, where is the justice for what you’ve done wrong?

When they hide you away and they move you along?

Hide you away and they move you along?