I have been 13, 14, 15, 16,
And I will be 17 very soon,
So, yes I know what it's like to be a teenager,
And let me tell you somethin',
Parents and a lot of adults are full of shit,
It is just as hard as I think it is,
If not harder;

How would they know anyway?
When they were my age it was the 70's,
Things were not the same as they are now,
And they had friends and went places,
I never go anywhere and have almost nobody,
I would have to say my parents are clueless,
At least when it comes to being a 16 year old girl,
In the year 2003 and 4,
With no social life,
And who never leaves her house,
For Christ's sake I don't even go to school,
And they have the balls to tell me everybody goes through this?
Nuh-uh,
I don't think so;

And I have found that is only gets worse the closer you are to 18,
At least for pitiful, lifeless me it does,
And it's starting to feel like my head is going to explode,
I'm sick and tired of this,
Of being a depressed 16 year-old girl,
In the middle of nowhere,
Without a social life, friends, or a job,
I'm sick of my parents telling me to stop,
Stop being a stereotypical depressed teenager,
Because life isn't that bad,
And they know because they were teenagers too,
So what?
They aren't me,
They didn't have the same life as I do,
So that means nothing to me,
It just proves that they're blind,
Or don't care,
Or really are stupid;

I mean really,
I'm almost 17,
I haven't done what most 14 year-olds already have,
And I'm not supposed to be somewhat sad about that?
God, I can't even get a full sentence out before my mom is all,
'I don't want to hear it, Gillian,
Your life isn't that bad',
FUCK YOU!

I'll just hold out for another year,
Till I can get a job,
Go to school,
And live around actual people,
What a concept,
Socializing;

They'll just say told you so when I'm somewhat happy again,
And that's okay,
Because as far as they're concerned,
I'm nothing more than a stereotypical depressed teenager.