Softee Boy’s got problems

Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow

Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow

Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way

In the halls like a lamb to the slaughter

Underneath the surface softer than a tissue in water

Gotta stay cautious like he stays with his father

Who jokes his only child is his favorite daughter

Awkward

Strength, meek and patient

Meets mean and takes it, teachers see him weak make worried faces

It's a cold hard world, he’s in secret places

So deep it’s hard to speak or to meet their gazes

Child in him just keepin' warm

Seems to wanna keep his body locked in its form

Other boys turn wild men as if reborn

Softee Boy keeps showin' up to be ignored

How long till he learns

How to harden up

And hold his own

When holdin' on is hard enough?

Holin' up in his room, boy's smart enough

To tie himself in a dozen knots

Got him stuck

It's a lot just to sit alone in his zone

His only homie gives him more of what he gets at home

Tells him grow him up some stones, dont b**** and moan

What he’s got nobody seems to wanna get to know

Is it nothin'

If it’s not understandable to some other animal?

Is it nothin'

If it can't find a form and a space to be tangible?

Softee Boy’s got problems

Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow

Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow

Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way

I'm gunna learn to love the way I am

The way I am

I wish you’d love me the way I am

The way I am

You don't have to understand

The way I am

Could just love me

Love me, love me

Signed the note

Moved out in the thick of summer

Saved enough for just a month, it's got him covered

Got a friend, they got in close, they're almost lovers

Gives him life to go his way and start another

He’ll be runnin' for his livin' in a job or two

It's not freedom, but it's somethin that he got to choose

Got a different set a problems now, they oughta do

He’ll meet the world as he is, like it's somethin new

Softee Boy’s got problems

Softee Boy, your day will come, but days go slow

Softee Boy, I saw ya, goin' safe and slow

Softee Boy, stay patient tho, there's space for your way