Big Boys Lyrics by Elvis Costello

Big Boys Lyrics

    I am starting to function
    In the usual way
    Everything is so provocative
    Very very, temporary

    I shall walk (i shall walk)
    Out of this place (out of this place)
    I shall walk
    Out on you
    'cause you go silly
    If she's willing
    Trying so hard to be like the big boys

    So you take her to the pictures
    Trying to become a fixture
    Inch by inch trying to reach her
    All the way through the second feature
    Worrying about your physical fitness
    Tell me how you got this sickness, oh ohhhh..

    I was caught in the suction
    By a face like a truncheon
    I was down upon one knee
    Stroking her vanity

    I was stuck on a hammerhead
    I came alive and left for dead
    As my face returned to red
    Choking on my pride and pity

    We can talk (we can talk)
    Until your face is blue ('til your face is blue)
    We can talk but she'll get to you
    After you've been loved and hated
    By the ones you've watched and waited
    Found that they were overrated

    She'll be the one - when the party's over
    She'll be the one - when the girls have gone home
    She'll be the one - that you'll wish you'd held onto
    She'll be the one - but it's too late for you to
    She'll be the one - who knows all your history
    She'll be the one -

    So you can cross her off your list
    And you try so hard
    And you try so hard
    And you try so hard
    To be like the big boys, oh.

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