Elvis Costello Big Boys Lyrics

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.