| Lyrics: | 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 each other's lives out on the pirate's deck.
And I remember that
night
When I'm 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 neighbor come outside to say, "Get your shirt,"
I
said "No way, it's the last time I'm not breaking any law."
And now I'm in a clothing store,
and the sign says 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 ten 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 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 being caught off
guard
I've had a lonesome awful day, the conversation finds its way
To catching fire-flies
out in the backyard.
And 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, "Oh no, no, can't you
see
When I was a girl, my mom and I we always talked
And I picked flowers everywhere 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 a girl too.
And you were just like me, and I was just like you |
