I'm Clean Lyrics

If I was the man you wanted

Well, I would not be the man that I am

And all of the seeds we planted

Washed away in the tides of the sand

Don't build your foundation

On any man or woman

Build it on something that lasts

Like the wind, let it fly like the birds can

I'm clean

And I am free

And all of the children

They are marked with our scars

And all of the things we taught them

Will get them very far

But I don't accept their judgment

They can keep their stone

Your daddy taught you to take care of yourself

Nobody else will

You're all alone

You're free

You are clean

I used to play in the grass

Well I was just a boy of three

The sun shone on my face

And I was happy to be me

When I was forty-seven

I lost everything I ever knew

And it brought me back to that patch of grass

Full of the dew that grew me true

Something old and something borrowed

Something new and something blue

Well, something is nothing

And it is my only gift to you

We are free

We are clean

We are clean

We're as free as we want to be

I'm clean

And I am free