They said grow up and stop day dreaming.
They said be serious and sit down.
They said don't talk so much and just smile.
They ask me what's wrong and why I am such a bore.
What they don't know is they made me this way.

I've grown up in a world so full of contradictions it makes me question myself.
Who do they want me to be? And who do I want me to be?
I've grown up being told to be one thing when I really wanted to be another.
I've grown up knowing how fake I was becoming to please them.

But today is a new day, and with every new day I uncover the true me.
I day dream, I act silly, I ramble on and a on.
I am growing up in a world that judges me no matter what, so why be afraid of being myself when the only opinion about me that matters is mine?