From the B side of the "can't be sure" single, by the Sundays.)



Note: [Unsure sections/alternate guesses] are written in brackets.





don't tell your mother

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don't tell your mother about

where you go when the lights are down

and don't tell your mother how

you're up to no good, nowhere to be found

well, it's time to learn not to work so hard

or not at all



how will we know when the end is nigh

on a day much as any other

run and play; while away the hours

and you know I would go if I could go

but I can't so thank you all the same



[suffice/surprised] to say I've turned away from it all

and don't think I'll be home for a while

'cause who needs a mother to [shout]

when I'm doing very well by myself



how will we know when the end is nigh

on a day much as any other

get out this house and while away the hours

[on cue began] well before the summer



and you know I would go if I could go

but I can't go now

would go if I could go

but I don't know how

you're exactly like the others

[older now/old enough