Safe As Houses Lyrics - Stiff Little Fingers

She makes a home and she stays mum 

About the things she might have done 

She keeps her eyes firm on the ground 

To set her own life 

Makes up her face and not her mind 

To be a wife 

There was a time away back then 

She might have thought to think again 

But then through dolls and schoolyard games 

Like ma before her 

She learned girls play the family way 

Don't look for more 

She's just playing 

Playing safe 

Playing houses 

Safe as houses 

Here on this street when they were kids 

He built his dreams with coloured bricks 

But comes the time for him to prove 

That he's a man now 

He gets a wife and he makes his move 

To three doors down 

He's playing 

Playing safe 

Playing houses 

Safe as houses 

For there was no-one there to say 

It didn't have to be that way 

You never get the best of you 

When you do what they expect you to 

You've heard it all 

How you're no use 

You're born to fail 

So follow suit 

But if you feel and got a dream 

Don't dare ignore it 

'cause that is what you've got to be 

You must got for it 

Don't play it 

Play it safe 

A plague on houses 

Safe as houses