G for Gendetta

Let me set the scene
I am six or seven
I live on Bates Road
We're having a street party
I'm crying, hiding in my brother's bedroom
Playing Pokemon Ruby cause the kids outside won't let me play

Football, they're laughing
Saying nasty things
Because at the front of an assembly
I stood with my mouth wide open
My mum came in distressed
Said she'd go say something
I begged her to not
And that was the day I decided

To never let myself be seen as different
And that if I ever got upset I needed to hide it
And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand
That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man

Kids are cunts
It's bully or be bullied
All the way through school
I tried to never set a foot wrong
Of course I've heard that song
Watched that movie, know that word
Yeah of course I've had sex
I smoke loads of cigarettes

Why'd you wear your sleeves like that?
Play football if you're so shit?
Why are you so quiet?
Why don't you ever shut up?
What are you doing here?
Who the fuck do you think you are?
No, I wasn't invited to this party
But you still didn't have to spit on me

To never let myself be seen as different
And that if I ever got upset I needed to hide it
And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand
That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man

So now burn all of your dictionaries
You don't need them anymore
Write all your own definitions
That's what being human's for
The self was never supposed to be
Stationary anyway
So why wouldn't you wanna change
From who you were taught to be
When you were a child
Before you knew yourself
Before you knew the world
Before you knew that you were allowed
To set fire to everything that you thought you knew
Gender is a cage and we're all wild animals

To never let myself be seen as different
(So now burn all of your dictionaries
You don't need them anymore)
And if I ever got upset I needed to hide it
(Write all your own definitions
That's what being human's for)
And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand
(The self was never supposed to be
Stationary anyway
So why wouldn't you wanna change
Who you were told to be
When you were a child)
That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man

To never let myself be seen as different
And that if I ever got upset I needed to hide it
And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand
That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man