Ani DiFranco - Hide and Seek (live) Lyrics

me and all the kids from the neighbourhoodwe play out in the street all summer longrule was we had to go home at nite when the street lights came onwe were oblivious to the rest of the worldwe hold up the cars in the streetwe always played boys against girlsand both sides would cheatstrange men would stop their cars at the curbsay "hey sweetheart, come here"and i would go up to the windowand they would have their dick out in there handsand a sick little sneeri'd say "here we go againyeah, this time you win"i would feel dirty; i would feel ashamedbut i wouldn't let it stop my gamewe would play hide and go seekterritory would be the whole blocksometimes the older boys when they find youthey wouldn't want to tag youthey just want to talkthey say "what would you do for a quarter?come on, we don't have that much time"i'd think for a minute and i'd say"ok, give me the quarter first. fine"this time you winhere we go againand i would feel dirty and i would feel ashamedbut i wouldn't let it stop my gamei remember my first trip alone on the greyhound busa man who put his hands on me as soon as nite felli remember when i was leaving how excited i wasi remember when i arrived i didn't feel so welli remember the teachers who got me so sickscared, i went into the bathroom and i threw up in my hairi could go on but you know what it just gets worseso i should probably stop there.girl, next time he wants to know what your problem isgirl, next time he wants to know where the anger comes fromjust tell him this time the problem is hisjust tell him the anger just comesit just comes