Little Boy

Little boy
 Why did you have to chase me so hard
 Didn't your mother show you what to do
 Didn't your father
 Tell you not to push
 Little boy
 We could have been great friends
 But you frightened me to death you see
 You made a
 Rabbit out of me
 And now we can't go back to being anything
 Perhaps I ought to thank you
 For you
 Took my innocence away
 And made me cruel
 How did you know
 I'd need that later on
 You taught me to hide
 And you taught me to lie
 And to tremble at the telephone
 To scream
 But never cry
 Surely you were wise beyond your years
 For you planted in me unknown fears
 That since I've met time and again
 I wish I could have known it then
 I might have been grateful for the experience
 Rather than for the darkness
 So useful to the hunted deer who doesn't know the way
 But really I would not have known
 Into how many arms
 A girl will let herself be thrown
 Just to escape
 The one who wants her most
 Better to dance with ten
 Who won't remember her name
 Than to be asked by one who can't forget it
 Little boy
 You made me feel guilt that day
 Which never fully went away
 You told the world you hated me
 And that's when I began to see
 How much it must have hurt
 To have dressed up
 In your first clean shirt
 And hope like hell she'd understand
 The things you felt
 And take your hand
 But damn you little boy
 I never had a chance
 You couldn't see I wasn't ready
 For what you monsters
 Call romance
 Little boy
 You never looked at me the same
 As though you didn't know my name
 And in the end
 You made me hate
 Myself for hurting you
 But no one ever
 Stopped to tell me what I ought to do
 Little boy
 Maybe someday
 You'll walk my way
 And listen to the song I play
 And if you're still fond of passing notes
 Perhaps we'll shed our children's coats
 And talk an hour or two of what's become of us
 And why
 That finally we might say hello
 Forgive
 And say goodbye