| 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 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 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, 'cept when I’m being caught off guard | 
| And I’ve had a lonesome awful day, the conversation finds its way | 
| To catching fire-flies out in the backyard. | 
| And I so 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 |