Difficult Age Lyrics - Xtc

Difficult age 

You're just fourteen 

And you're not friends with your body 

Painfully thin 

Look at your skin 

Play with yourself for a hobby 

How can they love a man who does that to himself? 

Difficult age 

Turn on the page 

Have that wee drink in the meantime 

Difficult age 

Now you're eighteen 

Here's all the freedoms you wanted 

All the best clothes 

A looker who goes 

The size of your wage packet flaunted 

How can they love a man who does that to himself? 

Difficult age 

Turn on the page 

And have that wee drink in the meantime 

Difficult age 

He's twenty-nine 

Thirty just lurks 'round the corner 

Settled for life 

Nice kids and wife 

Pull out a plum like jack horner 

Difficult age 

Turn on the page 

Have that wee drink in the meantime 

Difficult age 

Now thirty-eight 

And you're not friends with your body 

Wish you were thin 

Look at your skin 

Wasting yourself for a hobby 

How can they love a man who does that to himself?