We sit around the table

Still waiting for an answer

I'm peeling off the label

On my cool, cool Keds

Make the clock tick faster

I don't know why I did it

Don't think I had a reason

Still you want me to admit it

That I hate you so

That I wanted to get even

But I'm too young to know the rules

Too small to play the game

Too innocent to understand

She stole the family jewels

I'm not the one to blame

Oh dad why you can't be a man?

I stole a box of cookies

From teacher's secret closet

I ate them all at recess

In the parking lot

But got caught and teacher lost it

She took me to the office

Called up my new step mother

Said that I'm behaving badly

I don't get along with other kids or with my new step-brother

Far too much has changed for me to feel like I belong

Or get that stealing other people's stuff is wrong

Just trying hard to heal the scar

Down the middle of my family tree

'Cause I'm too young to know the rules

Too small to play the game

Too innocent to understand

She stole the family jewels

I'm not the one to blame

Oh dad why you can't be a man?

No time to be a kid

No choice but to be strong

When mommy moves a state away

I'm not the one to blame

But how could I understand

Oh dad why you can't be a man?