Small Red Boy (Audiotree Live) AJJ

[Verse 1]
I found a small red boy inside my tummy
With 3 dollars in change and a Milky Way Lite
In my occasional pursuit to find something more meaningful
Than yet another word that rhymes with "die"
I cut him out and put him on my table
His shallow-breathing chest would fall and rise
His South of Heaven shirt was way too big for him
His horns were long and sharp
And then he opened up those eyes that said

[Chorus 1]
I am, I am, I am, I am the truth

[Verse 2]
I showered him with love and adulation
One day he was just as tall as me
I showed him all the books that I was raised on
Madeleine L'Engle, D'Aulaires Mythologies
And in a montage that could warm the heart of Hitler
I raised him up so proud and motherly
I swore that I was glancing in a mirror
When in the language that I tought him
Oh God, he began to speak, he said

[Chorus 2]
I am, I am, I am, I am the truth
I am, I am, I am, I am the truth