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 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 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 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 got implants to put in they 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 fireflies out in the backyard and 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 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