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Dar Williams – When I Was A Boy 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, I didn't care 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 where 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've 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 catching fireflys out in the backyard.
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, 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 cry all the time, 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."
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Songwriters: DAR WILLIAMS
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    MisterZeke
    The original song was not about transgenderism, but about tomboys: she added trans lyrics later, which is too bad. Guess she felt it necessary to virtue signal and pander to a modern audience, since the original meaning-- that girls should be able to do what boys do-- was a good message. Unfortunately adding lyrics about implants was a quick and dirty way to update her song, and get cheers from the LGBTQ members of the audience. Twenty years from now, that message will be seen as dated, or even mysogynistic.
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