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The Exception
it seems all my life i've always been...
it seems all my life i've always been...
i've been shut out by the club of boys again
they patronized me and turned their backs
i choose not to follow in their tracks
i don't want to be her gay best friend
i want to be her man, her sweet, her cuddle bear
but i always wind nothing in the end
it seems all my life i've always been...
it seems all my life i've always been...
in pre-k i couldn't do my abc's
so i was older than the kids in my grade
despite my efforts i was always delayed
i tried to ride a two-wheeler, i really did
but i never got my balance and scraped my knees
when all i wanted was my father pleased
it seems all my life i've always been...
it seems all my life i've always been...
little boys were called words like "tiger" or "slugger"
but rough play left me unfulfilled and black and blue
i preferred day trips with my grandmother
at six or seven i put on weight
by age twelve i was 148
a fatty for others to berate
i succeeded in reducing size
but my a-cup somehow stayed the course
post-op i'm not legitimized
it seems all my life i've always been...
it seems all my life i've always been...
no matter where i go i'm never on time
5:43 becomes 5:45
i wish that i could press rewind
as i enter rooms with work in progress
seeing life sans my hand in the process
ever off-kilter, always behind
a peripheral thought in the back of the mind
genuine, gentle, candid, kind
it seems all my life i've always been...
it seems all my life i've always been...
