Big Boys [alternate version]

I am starting to function

In the usual way

Everything is so provocative

Very, very temporary

I shall walk

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 oh-oh-oh

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 hammer head

I-I-I-I came alive and left for dead

As my facе returned to red

Choking on my pridе and pity

We can talk until your face is blue

We can talk, but she'll get to you

After you've been loved and hated

By the ones you 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 wished you'd held on to

(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

So you try so hard

You try so hard

You try so hard to be like the big boys