You know the good kid growing up That was me I was voted most likely to be a priest And I thought I could not let anyone down My definition of the way to be kind Was to lose myself and to shun desire I thought I had Life figured out But I, (oh) I am different now And all the little ways that I tried to rebel Well, I kept them quiet Hid them well Because it wasn't real if it was never found And I looked at the world Through the eyes of a mask And compared myself with some fuzzy math To stake my claim on higher ground Oh I, (oh) I am different now Oh I, I am different now And I felt the holy water as a kid But still the love of God felt like a stranger Had to live and die to become born again Baptized in the fire of all my failure Still have the flaws like I always did A capacity for violence that I'm asking God to take away But I can look the world in the eye and make my amends with an honest life So the ones I love can say That I, (oh) I am different now Oh I, I am different now