With a twinkle in my eye, I believed that we are all the same

A mother tried to teach her young man to swallow all of the pain

If we go down there, you're not coming back

If I go down there, I'm not coming back

I've tried to hide, tried to fight the anger impulse

From some of you who held me down to some who just stepped on my fingers

Some of them just walked away and some went to get their big brothers

If I go down there, I'm not coming back

If we go down there, you're not coming back

I've tried to hide, tried to fight the anger impulse

I feel my age and my thoughts have changed, but now I know we're nothing alike

I've choked back the hurt for so many years that my heart is about to break