Trouble and Strife (2012 Remaster)-Everything But the Girl

[00:00.00] Who would be born into a mans's man's man's world? [00:19.35]But what do children care [00:21.00]For grown ups' despair [00:22.83]A house can hold both boy and girl [00:27.93]But every mother's son grows up [00:30.87]And daughters imitate [00:34.17]And the burden of careworn world [00:37.44]Is his to bear -- [00:39.63]Hers to wait [00:42.45]As the open world of a tomboy girl [00:45.96]Closes on a growing wife [00:48.84]From a childhood clear [00:50.46]Through teenage years [00:51.96]That always seem to be more [00:54.27]Trouble than strife. [00:59.28]From the hot dark of the night [01:01.68]To the cold light of day [01:05.04]From the cradle to wife to grave [01:08.28]Unless I stand in the way [01:13.35]As the open world of a tomboy girl [01:16.89]Closes in with growing strife [01:19.80]For my own sake [01:21.51]I'll comfort take [01:23.31]To know I'd never make a wife [01:26.28]As the open world of a tomboy girl [01:29.97]Closes in with growing strife [01:33.12]For my own sake [01:34.68]I'll comfort take [01:35.88]In the knowledge that [01:37.71]I'd never make a wife [02:05.73]You hear them talk of women's way with hatred [02:09.99]And it cuts me like a knife [02:12.90]Poor men, so much to bear [02:15.60]The children and the trouble and strife [02:20.52]The open world of a tomboy girl [02:23.43]Is the best of life [02:26.73]From a childhood clear [02:28.56]You end up here [02:42.00]In trouble and strife