You doubted me
you laughed at me
claimed that I never could be

A man of worth
A man of values
someone who would amount to anything

But I'll prove you wrong
I will get along
I will be a man worthy of song

Creepy and weird
that's all I ever hear
I smile at you through the insults
acknowledging you as a human being

For you could never understand the depths of my being
The love and affection for the world
My niceties being taken as hostilities
Being taken as perversions of what they really are

So I smile and laugh, day by day
never letting my true self
see the light of day

for no one could understand
what it means to me
to be a man