I started showering and flowering in the seventh grade
I didn’t have a purpose in life except trying to make a girl’s day
“I don’t care about my family, I just roll with it, I’m flowing, and tell ‘em I’ll be home by 28”

I was always smaller than everybody else was
I don’t know why, I wasn’t growing as fast but
I took it as a blessing I didn’t see a reason to hate it
I just wanted love and I wanted to be taken I told ‘em

I don’t mind my height, I’m proud of being short
It’s better when we’re playing dodgeball or some sports
I told ‘em this was just a part of who I was, man
If you hate it then don’t be giving me a buzz, man

I tried to focus on my academic issues, you see
Because I wanted to get better than a D or a C
My mama told me it’s okay if you’re a little bit tired
You’re still in middle school, it doesn’t matter yet, you’ll get hired

I couldn’t see it, I don’t know if that’s because I’m blind
Or my mind doesn’t work the same way, the same kind
Or maybe I’m not tall enough to see over my own self-hatred
People asked me what I wanted to do and so I faked a

Little smile and told them “I’m not really sure
I know I don’t wanna be a janitor, a chauffeur”
But really I just didn’t wanna be the high schooler
That I was about to become, the one who didn’t have an ounce of
Thought of where he wanted to go, I want to go home
I’ve been living in this house for fourteen years but I just don’t
Have the feeling like I belong, I just take it along
But when I hit the ninth grade and I was still on the wrong side

Of my shower head that’s only 5’3” off the ground
I told them I was gonna grow, watch me pound after pound
And there were only three inches of space in my case
Between my face and the base of my shower head, I raced

To erase all the things that I’d been failing to do
I got a girlfriend and now I think that it was too soon
But when I broke it all I wanted just to start it anew
But then my world came crashing 'round, I couldn’t undo

And I’ll admit I’ve thought of killing myself, my mind shattered
Pn itself, I wanted farewell, I never excelled
At some point I tried to do it and a boy who came over
He said that he was okay, even though he’d been through it

I never really stopped crying on the bus back
And when I stood up in the shower in the night, and I was jacking
Up the heat, I didn’t wanna feel myself crying
And thinking how my mom would feel if I really went dying

And when I looked up at the sky, all I saw was shining white
In the ceiling, in the tiles, and I kicked it all in spite
I wasn’t even as tall as what I’d told them I'd be
And still the showerhead loomed a couple inches from me
And so I trusted in that everything was fine
I even told myself that I don’t wanna die
And then another month passed and I was better and better
But then a friend tried to do it, I was too late to get her

And that was long, long ago, and then, I wanted to face it
But it was too, too much, I’m only human and hating
And I remember how it was when you greeted me again
I was only back from camp, where I would shower now and then

And I could only fit a bar of body soap
Between my head and where the shower head eloped
I said so quietly that nobody could hear it but me
That I would fight until I met you at the sixty and three

And so I kept going at it, for a while, I was happy
And I had found a new love, and tried keeping it classy
But then it all fell apart just like everything else
And now I’ve given up on love, given up on my health

And now I’m bumping my head when I step in the shower
I’ve met you where I'd always said, through the sweet and the sour
And I don’t know where I’ll be going after this
I’m almost leaving so let’s sleep in our abyss

And tomorrow, when we meet, I’ll tell you all about the time
When I looked up at this rhyme and saw a crowd in front of my eyes
And I’m saying, if I ever get to see you again
I wanna tell you of a day when all this comes to an end