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 thepain If we go down there you're 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 myfingers Some of them just walked away and some went to get their bigbrothers I feel my age and my thoughts have changed and now I know we'renothing alike I've choked back the hurt for so many years that my heart isabout to break