Lost in Yonkers
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- You think I'm crazy?
- Don't use that word to me.

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Why not? Are you afraid of it?
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If that's what I am,
don't be afraid to say it!

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'Cause if I'm crazy, I should be in a home.
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And then you'd be all alone
and you wouldn't like it.

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Is that why you don't use that word? Is it?
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Is it?
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You want to know what you are?
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You are a child.
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That's what the doctors told me.
You are not crazy, not stupid. A child.

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And that's how I treat you,
because that's all that you understand.

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You don't need doctors.
You don't need to live in a home.

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This is where you live, where
you can be watched and taken care of.

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You will always be a child.
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And in this world, where there is
so much hate and sickness and death...

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...maybe you're better off.
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You stay a child
and be glad that's what God made you.

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Then why did He make me
look like a woman...

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...and feel like a woman inside?
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And want to have all the things
that a woman should have?

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Is that what I'm supposed
to thank Him for?

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I know that I get confused sometimes.
I know that I get frightened.

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But if I'm a child,
why can't I be happy like a child?

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Why can't I just be satisfied with dolls
instead of babies?

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I'm not so smart.
I can't answer those things!

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I am. Maybe I'm just as smart as a child...
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...but some children are smarter
than grownups.

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Some grownups I've seen are very stupid.
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And very mean.
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You don't have responsibilities.
It's responsibilities that make meanness.

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I don't want to be your responsibility!
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Then who would be responsible
for you, yourself?


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