I won't forget when Peter Pan
Came to my house, took my hand
I said I was a boy
I'm glad he didn't check
I learned to fly
I learned to fight
I lived a whole life in one night
We saved eachother's lives out on the pirate deck
And I remember that night when
Leaving a late night with some friends
And I hear somebody tell me
It's not safe
Someone should help me
I need to find a nice man to walk me home
When I was a boy
I scared the pants off of my mom
Climbed what I could climb upon
And I don't know how I survived,
I guess I knew the tricks that all boys knew
And you can walk me home
But I was a boy too
I was a kid that you would like
Just a small boy on her bike
Riding topless yeah
I never cared who saw
My neighbour came outside to say,
"Get your shirt"
I said "No way,
it's the last time I'm not breaking any law."
Now I'm in this clothing store
And the signs say "less is more"
More that's tight means more to see
More for them, not more for me
That can't help me climb a tree in 10 seconds flat
When I was a boy
See that picture, that was me
Grass-stained shirt and dusty knees
And I know things have gotta change
They've got pills to sell, they've got implants to put in,
they've got implants to remove
But I am not forgetting that I was a boy too
And like the woods where I would creep
It's a secret I can keep
Except when I'm tired, except when I'm caught off-guard
I've had a lonesome, awful day
The conversation finds its way
To catching fireflies out in the backyard
And so I tell the man I'm with
About the other life I lived
And I say "Now you're top gun,
I have lost and you have won..."
And he says "No no nonono can't you see
when I was a girl
my mom and I, we always talked
and I picked flowers everwhere that I walked;
And I could always cry
Now even when I'm alone I seldom do.
And I have lost some kindness,
But I was girl too...
And you were just like me...
And I was just like you..."
"When I was a boy", Dar Williams, without any kind of copyright except for love of the written word. Sorry.
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