you tell me who and where and when and how I should love you say that all your rules come from high up above everything I want to do and be is a sin you hold me down and chain me again and again you try to control what I do and say and keep me in a cage each and every day it's not fair my deviation keeps me away from your face oh once I was an outcast but now I've found my place you're sitting in the back and watching what I do everybody's focus has to be on you you've got to make me feel weak so that you feel strong everything about you is completely wrong you just can't control what I do and say I break away from you more and more each day I don't care my deviation damns me in your eyes oh once I did it your way but now the path is mine you know you'll never change you'll always be the same you're always bringing pain and strife it's such a crying shame it shouldn't be this way you shouldn't go on ruining life everywhere my deviation keeps me away from your chains oh once I was your captive but now I have escaped