Trouble And Strife Lyrics - Everything But The Girl

Who would be born into a mans's man's man's world? 

But what do children care 

For grown ups' despair 

A house can hold both boy and girl 

But every mother's son grows up 

And daughters imitate 

And the burden of careworn world 

Is his to bear 

--Hers to wait 

As the open world of a tomboy girl 

Closes on a growing wife 

From a childhood clear 

Through teenage years 

That always seem to be more 

Trouble than strife. 

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From the hot dark of the night 

To the cold light of day 

From the cradle to wife to grave 

Unless I stand in the way 

As the open world of a tomboy girl 

Closes in with growing strife 

For my own sake I'll comfort take 

To know I'd never make a wife 

As the open world of a tomboy girl 

Closes in with growing strife 

For my own sake I'll comfort take 

In the knowledge that I'd never make a wife 

You hear them talk of women's way with hatred 

And it cuts me like a knife 

Poor men, so much to bear 

The children and the trouble and strife 

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The open world of a tomboy girl 

Is the best of life 

From a childhood clear 

You end up here 

In trouble and strife