He remembers at 14,
he knew what he wanted.
He wanted a man at psychiatry.
Just to be healed, to be told it was a right.
All he got was a hospital bed and some pills to sleep at night.
In his mind were images so divine.
But in his life it was a hell of a time.
They locked him away because he dared to love.
Oh, the boy with a mind of his own.
A boy with a mind of his own.
He wonders if anyone has ever heard of him.
They kicked in the door acting like there
was some kind of murder going on.
Made the lock seem dirty, caught him sick,
caught him quiet.
The law was against him,
he was 25,
his lover 16. Couldn't believe it was happening,
cause it seemed so unreal.
But a cell 12 by 8 makes it all so very real.
They locked him away
because he dared to love.
They locked him away because he dared to love.
They locked him away because he dared to love.
They locked him away because he dared to love.
A boy with the mind of his own.
He loved a boy with the mind of his own.