Disappear Fear - Who's So Scared lyrics

once riding in old baltimore, head filled

heart filled with glee

i saw a baltimorean keep looking straight at me

now i was eight and very small

and he was no whit bigger

and so i smiled but he poked his tongue out and called me nigger

i saw the whole of baltimore from may until december

of all the things that happened there

that's all that i remember

who's so scared

when i was fourteen i took a bus to san francisco

i was full of hope and joy till this girl called me a boy

but i was already on my way, so frightened to be gay

just like 1942 (1492) the world screaming

"something's wrong with you, jew"

who's so scared

but what i discover, lover after lover

there's nothing wrong with me

that's jys a lie by society

so i start looking at the world we have

and while it's not completely bad

there's a lot of room for improvement

people of color and the gay movement

who's so scared

won't you explain to me the pain of your life