When I was a boy

They chase me around

No insults and words trying to make me their cloud

So I stood and I fought

Took every punch they could throw

Ripped the book from my hand pushed my face in the snow

I kicked and I scrapped all my knuckles got wrong

Pictured of me

I never could fall

Their fear of my faith that my immigrant fast

Made me love who I was

In the role I was cast

Now I'm tougher

In the rest

You wanna come at me

Better give it your best

Now I'm tougher

Than the rest

You wannanot me

You better bring your best

I endured the spring years and it never ran dry

To a change so I was learn how to deny

Ducked out of the way

And disguised my true shell

Yeah I packed up my past hit it up on a shell

I built up a shell that hardened like steel

To protect me from harp

Not allow me to feel

But that armor and shield although it did glow

Cause the hatred of self

Fester and grow

Am I tougher

Than the rest

You want to come at me

But I give it your best

Now I'm chopper

The rest you wanna come with me yeah

You better give it your best

For years I would blend and never admit

So I could hear all the venom at my tribe

They would spit

I pretend not to notice but I couldn't abide

Beneath my false strength was a weekly inside

Now I know a deep truth

Took me a decade to learn

Love of myself

Was the hardest to earn

Though I've come to some peace

I still give a tam

Will my toughness allow me to accept who I am

Will my toughness allow me

To accept who I am

Am I tougher

Than the rest

Never realized

I was failing the tests

Well I never realized

I was failing the test

Am I tougher

Than the rest

I never realized

I was failing

The test