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 climbup on

And I don't know how I survived, I guess I knew the tricks that all the boys knew

And you could 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 came 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 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 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 it's way

To catchng fireflies 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, oh, 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."