How Soon Is Now?

[Verse 1]

I am the son, I am the heir

Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

I am the son and the heir

Of nothing in particular

[Chorus]

Oh, shut your mouth

How can you say

I go about things the wrong way?

I am human and I need to be loved

Just like everybody else does

[Verse 1]

I am the son, I am the heir

Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

I am the son and the heir

Of nothing in particular

[Chorus]

Oh, shut your mouth

How can you say

I go about things the wrong way?

I am human and I need to be loved

Just like everybody else does

[Verse 2]

There's a club if you'd like to go

You could meet somebody who really loves you

So you go and you stand on your own

And you leave on your own

And you go home and you cry and you want to die

[Bridge]

(I am the son, I am the heir)

(Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar)

(I am the son and the heir)

[Outro]

When you say it's gonna happen now

Exactly when do you mean?

See, I've already waited too long

And all my hope is gone

(Of nothing in particular)