Your Cover's Blown

Say what you want and leave your shyness home
 Do what you want and write a little poem
 Leave it for her and live another day
 Leave it for her, the girl around the way
 Write down a list of things you want to do
 Leave it in work because you've got to live a little
 Pick up the girl in someone's borrowed Mini
 Take her to dinner, use her boyfriend's money
 Listen lady, put your phone down
 Cancel all operations
 Tell your friends to cool it
 Your cover's blown
 I want to see you alone
 Cancel all operations
 Tell your friends to cool it
 Your cover's blown
 Planning a break is such a tricky thing
 Because you move to the country, she comes back again
 And then you move to the city but she goes abroad
 Is she telling you something, is she getting bored?
 I'll make a rough plan to sleep around, I'm in a rut
 I need a change, I'm a lazy rat if I am honest
 My bold change of tact will fade out with the summer
 I've got no appetite and all the girls are bummers
 My baby doesn't look at me
 The way I want her to
 She doesn't comprend
 My baby's got it going on
 She's got a friend hid in every street in this town
 I want to go out but there's nobody home
 I'll go on my own
 Thus starts the lonely walking
 There's always too much talking
 I should have stayed home
 She starts her cool caressing
 The kid, she starts undressing in front of me
 I should've stayed home
 The DJ's picking up speed
 That's something I just don't need
 I should've stayed home
 The gossip's bearing down on me
 The kids are pairing off in front of me
 I should've stayed home
 I should've stayed home
 I think I'll go home
 Hey lady, meet my mum and dad
 You're a strange aberration
 In this land of potted plants and box-like houses
 Where the girls like mouses
 Breathe a long sigh of resignation
 You resign yourself to keep on growing
 All the seeds you're sowing
 You're a strange apparition
 In this land of grammar schools and gala days
 The ladies set in their ways
 You had a long conversation
 With the kid next door
 Who's a little slow
 But in your favour, it shows
 Cancel all operations
 Tell your friends to move out to the sticks