when i was a girl, they told me the world   was made by a man my father ran   ran ran ran he ran      i was only four i was lying by the door   my mother she rocked me back and forth   we cried and cried i remember that night      then i went to school and i swallowed all the rules   i was nervous and ashamed nobody knew my name   they said i wasn't normal my mother said the same   they didn't teach me much, they told me i should pray   i prayed i prayed i prayed      when i was a girl they told me in this world   there's black and there's white you're wrong or you're right   i didn't feel well and i didn't fit in   i was twelve years old and i felt like sin      when i was a girl they told me in this world   some things fit and some things dont   a man and a woman a man and a woman   that's what he wrote this we know      the priest looked at me with his big blue eyes   told me my love was the devil in disguise   my mother wouldn't look at me her eyes were black   i remember that night i didn't come back   i ran ran ran i ran      when i was 16 i heard a woman's voice   she said truth is subjective we've all got a choice   believe what you feel and question what they say   everyone's really just guessing anyway   i thought that you should know this      i read mother jones her words rattled in my bones   i learned about revolution, i don't throw stones   i think what i think and i say what i see   i cut my own hair and i am who i be   and i love who i love who i love like the ocean   i love who i love who i love like the ocean   i love who i love who i love like the ocean