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    1. Said, "Hey little boy, you can't go where the others go'Cause you don't look like they do"I said, "Hey, old man, how can you stand to think that way?Did you really think about it before you made the rules?"

      The possibility of changing becomes increasingly more evident in this part of the song, which gives shape to a conversation between a child and an old man. The resignation seems to belong to the viewpoint of the old man, whereas the child questions the very existence of the "rules" who discriminate them for the color of his skin ("you don't look like they do") and the origin of the authority of those who created them. At this point of the song, resignation seems to resemble a compliant attitude, which may be even benefitting from an injust society. Notice that the singer evidently sides with the boy, ultimately converging his point of view with his own.