He's a deathbed priest
With a boy scout deep inside

The story:

It was more just an anticlimactic conversation - I was telling my friends how much cooler Garth's lyrics were than the Aerosmith song he was covering. For an example of his poetic genius I quoted them the above passage. "A death-bed priest," I emphasized, "but deep down inside he's still a little boy scout? Now that's just cool."

My friend looked at me quizzically and said she was pretty sure those weren't the real lyrics, so we had to look them up. I was rather disappointed to find they were not as poetic as I had thought.