Dirt on your face and boots on your feet Sneak out at night to drink on the street They say that you're so young But your mind is made up And your passing all the others The ones that gave up Only 16 but your nobody's fool You get beat up by the jocks on your way Home from school But you've got something that they Can't understand You got the fucking world in the palm Of your hand Too big for boots is what they say But you'll knock down anyone in the way They don't understand this is the life you choose And right now you feel like you can never lose It's more than a tourist photo in Harvard square It's more than a leather and purple hair This is more than jumping the fashion cart Because your outside shows the pride in your heart You may look different but it's by choice No lies or accusations will silence your voice Brought into this world and forged in adolescent pain Something that others just can't explain