when i was a girl, they told me the worldnnwas made by a man my father rannnran ran ran he rannnnni was only four i was lying by the doornnmy mother she rocked me back and forthnnwe cried and cried i remember that nightnnnnthen i went to school and i swallowed all the rulesnni was nervous and ashamed nobody knew my namennthey said i wasn't normal my mother said the samennthey didn't teach me much, they told me i should praynni prayed i prayed i prayednnnnwhen i was a girl they told me in this worldnnthere's black and there's white you're wrong or you're rightnni didn't feel well and i didn't fit innni was twelve years old and i felt like sinnnnnwhen i was a girl they told me in this worldnnsome things fit and some things dontnna man and a woman a man and a womannnthat's what he wrote this we knownnnnthe priest looked at me with his big blue eyesnntold me my love was the devil in disguisennmy mother wouldn't look at me her eyes were blacknni remember that night i didn't come backnni ran ran ran i rannnnnwhen i was 16 i heard a woman's voicennshe said truth is subjective we've all got a choicennbelieve what you feel and question what they saynneveryone's really just guessing anywaynni thought that you should know thisnnnni read mother jones her words rattled in my bonesnni learned about revolution, i don't throw stonesnni think what i think and i say what i seenni cut my own hair and i am who i bennand i love who i love who i love like the oceannni love who i love who i love like the oceannni love who i love who i love like the ocean