G for Gendetta Lyrics

Let me set the scene

I am six or seven

I live on Bates Road

We're having a street party

I'm crying, hiding in my brother's bedroom

Playing Pokémon Ruby cause the kids outside won't let me play

Football, they're laughing

Saying nasty things

Because at the front of an assembly

I stood with my mouth wide open

My mum came in distressed

Said she'd go say something

I begged her to not

And that was the day I decided

To never let myself be seen as different

And that if I ever got upset I needed to hide it

And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand

That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man

Kids are cunts

It's bully or be bullied

All the way through school

I tried to never set a foot wrong

Of course I've heard that song

Watched that movie, know that word

Yeah of course I've had sex

I smoke loads of cigarettes

Why'd you wear your sleeves like that?

Play football if you're so shit?

Why are you so quiet?

Why don't you ever shut up?

What are you doing here?

Who the fuck do you think you are?

No, I wasn't invited to this party

But you still didn't have to spit on me

To never let myself be seen as different

And that if I ever got upset I needed to hide it

And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand

That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man

So now burn all of your dictionaries

You don't need them anymore

Write all your own definitions

That's what being human's for

The self was never supposed to be

Stationary anyway

So why wouldn't you wanna change

From who you were taught to be

When you were a child

Before you knew yourself

Before you knew the world

Before you knew that you were allowed

To set fire to everything that you thought you knew

Gender is a cage and we're all wild animals

To never let myself be seen as different

(So now burn all of your dictionaries

You don't need them anymore)

And if I ever got upset I needed to hide it

(Write all your own definitions

That's what being human's for)

And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand

(The self was never supposed to be

Stationary anyway

So why wouldn't you wanna change

Who you were told to be

When you were a child)

That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man

To never let myself be seen as different

And that if I ever got upset I needed to hide it

And it was almost another twenty years before I came to understand

That you were allowed to quit trying to be a man