Flesh & Bone

Today would have been the perfect day to go to the beach

I'm on the sofa trying to get over a hate speech

We do not love ourselves the way the prophets teach

Even Jesus kept his feelings like a lamp in the dark

Until he flipped the tables over up in the market

Oh, Mother, there are lamps and there are sparks

But I need to know

I don’t need to be shown

I gotta see it for myself

I gotta learn it on my own

I need to know if I am flesh and bone

Am I still growing or full grown?

And am I still growing or full grown?

Oh, ooh, yeah

She’s coming up for the rising, like the dark before dawn

She has come to a place and she feels like her love’s gone

She has come of an age and a line should be drawn

He’s walking around in a tank top, getting caught in a bluff

Little boys do not cry, don’t you think that you’re hot stuff?

It's real tough when your daddy don’t call you enough, oh

But I need to know

I don’t need to be shown

I gotta see it for myself

I gotta learn it on my own

I need to know if I am flesh and bone

And am I still growing or full grown, honey?

And am I still growing, or am I full grown? Hey

Oh, ooh, yeah

Oh, no, ooh

Striking matches to watch ‘em burn in our childhood bedrooms

Little time, little water and light, little seed, every bud blooms

I been striking matches to watch ‘em burn in the childhood bedroom, ooh

Little time, little water and light, little seed, every bud blooms, oh

There are days I need to tell myself, "I’m doing alright"

My inner child and my ego get caught up in a knife fight

I get nervous and then I will get out of sight

'Cause everybody I came up with says that I’m going too slow, whoa, ooh

Oh, but it’s cool though, and I can hear my people when I check out the show

I feel real low

'Cause I need to know

I don’t need to be shown

I gotta see it for myself

I gotta learn it on my own

I need to know if I am flesh and bone

And am I still growing or I am a full grown?

'Cause I need to know

Oh, I don’t need to be shown

Gotta see it for myself

I gotta learn it on my own

I need to know if I am flesh and bone

And am I still growing or full grown, honey?

And am I still growing, like a-a-a-ah, hey

Oh, ooh, yeah