If you were a boy, would you be a boy with a record playing in your head If you were a boy, would you would you be a boy with a gun and an issue to be resolved If you were a boy, would you be a boy with a pen and paper and something to say If you were a boy, would your face be made of rock or of china If you were a boy, would you carry pockets full of fists or of white noise If you were a boy, would you be a boy with a pen and paper and something to say If you were a boy, would your face be made of rock or of china If you were a boy, would you carry pockets full of fists or of white noise If you were a boy If you were a boy I would put my dirty shoes on my dirty feet again And walk down your dirty streets again if I were a boy