Lyric Sixteen

You ve been a juvenile
With a dolphin smile
With no elbow room
With your body in bloom
You ve had your little backyard
Protected by big walls
You didn t dare look over
Cause you ve been too small

Now you re finally sixteen
And you feelin old
But they won t believe
That you got a soul
Cause you re only sixteen
And you re feeling real
But you can t seem to cop a feel

Why do they have to force us
Through this metamorphose
Little butterfly
No matter how you try
You ll be segregated
You re gonna be closed off
You re callow and you re green
Cause you re caught between

You re only sixteen
Try to cross the line
But your little wings are intertwined
You re only sixteen
And you re such a tease
And there s nothing you do
That can really please

"These children
They re not really bad most of them
They re just products
Of rotten neighborhoods
And bad family situations"

You know you can t forsake it
So sit back and take it
You see you re just not ripe
So don t try and fight that

You re only sixteen
You wanna catch a peek
But they look at you
Like you re such a freak
Well you re only sixteen
With a lot to say
But they won t give you
The time of day

You re only sixteen!
You re only sixteen!
You re just sixteen!!
You poor little thing.