Boy Babies

Boy Babies

My intention if you'd like to know
Is to marry a virgin pure as snow
With what I've learned Baby on the street
I'm going to teach my boy baby how to speak
I don't want to end up with a party freak
Who has to halloween and christmas every week
I'd never know just when he's going to cheat on me
And beat on me
And leave me when I'm fat and old
When no one else
Wants to lay me down and turn me round
And make me make those baby sounds
And ease the blues Baby when they come
Honey I can't stay forever young
Oh I've done some heavy stuff and rung some bells
But what my man don't know about won't hurt like hell
And it doesn't hurt to tell a lie and sigh to get me by
Some guys are such sweet idiots and so naive
They really want so hard to believe their Eve

Walking down the high street
You catch their eye they look so meek
They smile and blush and they turn
And they stare straight ahead
They're angels waiting for some girl to catch them
With gossamer nets
And they're oh so willing to fall

Well the life she planned so long ago
Did it come to pass I'd like to know
Does she wake up with an ex-boy scout
Does the honey still drip from his mouth
Or did it go the way of every thing I see
Innocence can't take it in the air we breathe
Did she give away her secrets in the heat of love
The sky above is not so blue
When you've come out from undercovers
Or did her man have secrets of his own
Poor Joan

Walking down the high street
The women I see Baby aren't so meek
They've had to learn Baby to survive
With blood on their hands
You'll find no angels this side of heaven
No angels no devils just woman and man
Even a child gets to understand