So I’m about to go on the road
and we’ve got a hit record.
“Blood & Roses” was on the
charts for rock nationally. An-
other creepy horror movie title
- a song called “Behind The Wall
of Sleep” and “Blood & Roses”
- and my parents don’t give a
shit. All I ever wanted to do was
please them and make them
happy and prove that I wasn’t a
failure. Because occasionally I’d
hear my mother on the phone
with her older sister, Florence.
“Antoinette, how’s Patrick do-
ing?” She’s say, “I don’t know.
That god damned kid living in
New York is a fuckin’ bum. He’s
31 years old. He’s not married.
He’s no good. I don’t know what
I’m going to do with this kid,
Florence.”
So we’ve got a hit with “Blood
& Roses” and “Behind The Wall
of Sleep” from our first album,
Especially for You. We’re about
to go on tour with The Ramones
and I’m living in New York City
in an apartment that I still have
(which is probably an eighth of
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