[Chorus 1]

Chest shrinking up

I’m scared to feel

Things keep changing

What’s the big deal?

So much to show

So much more to conceal

Growing inside in

Plied for the reveal

[Verse 1]

By poetry, you know it’s me

Who’s heard of something stormy?

Who still hangs out

And watches cartoons in the mornings

While the rain is pouring

While the teenagers snoring

All their energy they’re storing

To go out and be boring…?

Who watches real shows?

Who wants to smoke weed?

I heard it’s kind of a blast

But it makes you lazy

And hazy, but I

Have fun without the fazing

I might watch cartoons

But I’m not a baby

I’ve got friends in school

Sometimes talk to girls

Sometimes think about the mark

I might make on the world

But when my inside’s unfurled

I feel like a frickin’ girl

Put down by the world

Always told how to act

Always matched up with the

Scratched up archetype

Why do ad men in New York

Choose how we live our life?

We all live as one

And before we’re all done

I’m going to be the one

Who stares straight at the sun to say

[Chorus 2]

I’m a little boy

Sorta scared to feel

Feels like things changing

Like, what’s the big deal?

So much to show

So much more to conceal

Growing inside in

Plied for the reveal

[Verse 2]

By speaking

Cya at the park this evening

I’m on my way

On my razor scooter, speeding

“Weakling!” Yells some voice

Freak thing, one small word

Sent my emotions bouncing ground to ceiling

Peeling away all the layers I’m crafting

Showing my vulnerable emotions, basking in the air

If you ask me, I’d say I don’t care

I’d say I don’t cry. I’d double dog dare you

To share two things that you did, embarrassed

Take you back to school with that London Bridge, Paris

Keep telling my stories, you might become my heiress

Thinly veiled vulnerability, I cherish

Why? It’s because it makes me feel alright

Knowing I’m not the only one up at, night

Wondering why small stuff makes me so uptight

Staring out my window at the distant light

Waiting to be whisked away by sleep tonight

And who would’ve thought that would not change

No wonder OTC got the sleep pills, main

But my parents sleep quick

So if it’s not too lame

I hope I grow up to be like them

To be old and tame

But until that happens

I’ll remain the same

[Chorus 3]

I’m a scared little boy

Terrified to feel

Things never stop changing

What the heck’s the big deal?

Hardly anything to show

Too much to conceal

Growing nervous, yet

Here’s a small reveal

[Verse 3]

Don’t know what to feel

Don’t know who to be

Might just stop talking

I never stop seeing

Fleeting ghosts

Enormous giants

Suitcases, purses

Probably meeting clients

Probably eating Swedish things

Sparkling water on the side

Everything out in the open

Never any words to hide

I know adult life

I know what it’s going to be

I’ve talked to a few

Watched some on tv

It’s just like kid life

But you’re finally free!

It’s a cool little twist

And just between you and me

I’m just full of some glee

That I get to be somebody

As an adult

Random people will love me

Random people will need me

I’ll buy my own food

While my own hand feeds me

Creepy! Hand on it’s own

Moving like a zombie

Once I grow up big

I won’t dream about tsunamis

I won’t dream that flaming robot

I’ll just dream about Super Smash Bros.,

Stormy on the Bro Chart

I don’t even know art

I just ramble

Are you done watching tv

Can I change the channel?

Cartoons making my mind wander

Like I do out in the yard

When it’s really nice out

And sometimes you move the car

And then I play basketball

Still losing to all the neighbors

But I still try, man

I still put in some effort, at least