But when I grew up, all I did was mope

I had to be like the pope

Whether I liked it or not

And the existence of my life dwindled to a dot.

Take my advice, don't follow in my footsteps, don't listen to your parents, run far away when they utter the word "responsibility". It's fulla crap and I bet they listened to their parents when they were young, so they ended up like this.