My mother told me
the things that she knew,
things she learned from experience
so I would know too.

Boys just want the girls
shallow and plastic,
girls that will get them excited
not any scholastic.

So wait for the men
that's what she told me,
they'll want strong women of substance
that's what you should be.

I grew up trying
to be what she said,
focused on growing and learning
it's what I was lead.

But something happened
when I was a girl,
all the boys they came running
to make me their pearl.

I turned them all down
just like I was told,
for the men looking for special
men looking for bold.

Boys have stopped running
there's no one around,
but men aren't interested either
it's what I have found.

So there is one thing
Mom must have forgot,
I'm not anything notable
like she must have thought.