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.