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Difficult Age
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'
Difficult Age
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'