If it came to pass that they should ask   What could I tell them   Would they criticize behind my back   Maybe I should let them   Oh if only then and only then   They would understand    They'd turn a full-blooded city boy    Into a full-blooded city man      If they could face it   I could take it in their eyes   Oh I know I'd make it   Their tiny minds   And sacred cows just fake it   If only then and only then   They would understand   They'd turn a full-blooded city boy   Into a full-blooded city man      But I know the way they want me   In the way they publicize   If they could turn their focus off   To the image in their eyes   Maybe it would help them, help them understand   Maybe it would help them, help them understand   Maybe it would help them, help them understand   That a full-blooded city boy   Is now a full-blooded city man      Oh my soul   Oh my soul   Oh my soul