benny - boys will be boys
I'm so tired of your illusions
Rules never change
And my mind is so abusive
Taking on the shapes
When it comes to your love
Is it unconditional?
When it comes to my love
Anything is fixable
And all these noises so relentless
I need a second to breathe
Cause if boys will be boys
We do the best that we can
Cover for our brothers
While we suffer from our own hands
Boys will be boys
That's the way that this thing goes
When mothers lose their sons
And their fathers watch them go
Fathers watch them go
Fathers watch them go
When mothers lose their sons
And fathers watch them go
I'm no longer taking lessons
From those who broke before
Now that I am done confessing the words
Have left me sore
When you feel the restless pain
As it crawls out of your heart
And the thoughts of yesterday
Bring you to where you are
All these voices that once controlled me
Can't contain me here
Cause if boys will be boys
And we do the best that we can
Cover for our brothers
While we suffer from our own hands
Boys will be boys
That's the way that this thing goes
When mothers lose their sons
And their fathers watch them go
Fathers watch them go
Fathers watch them go
When mothers lose their sons
And fathers watch them go
Tell me how it feels to win it
Has it gone according to your plan?
Do you wish that you'd forget it or?
Or do you feel less like a human?
Ooh, if boys don't cry not a man am I
Not a day goes by that I've had to lie
Who I was before
Since I closed that door
And it's all white noise
That boys must be boys
Cause if boys will be boys
And we do the best that we can
Cover for our brothers
While we suffer from our own hands
Boys will be boys
That's the way that this thing goes
When mothers lose their sons
And their fathers watch them go
Fathers watch them go
Fathers watch them go
When mothers lose their sons
And fathers watch them go
Fathers watch them go
Fathers watch them go
When mothers lose their sons
And fathers watch them go
benny - little game
Play us like pawns and relentlessly confine,
Into living up to gender roles and having absent minds
Don't you think it's funny how they tell us how to live?
Don't you think it's funny how we're all delinquent kids?
Like, hush now, don't say, don't say
Hush boy, oh hush boy, don't say a word
Throw on a jersey and no one gets hurt
Hush girl, oh hush girl, just bat your eyes
Play our little game, play our little game
Bounded all thoughts and corrected common sense
You're raising suicidals with your predetermined titles
Like "a mess, distressed, I am unimpressed, you're excess
A dress is all you'll ever be."
Gender roles impose control and deceive progressive times
Welcome to the land of the broken minds
Hush boy, oh hush boy, don't say a word
Throw on a jersey and no one gets hurt
Hush girl, oh hush girl, just bat your eyes
Play our little game, play our little game [2x]
We feign opulence just to get by
Put on false confidence just to feel alive
They can't hurt me anymore
There's nothing left to break of me
There's nothing left to take from me
'Cause, baby, it's easy to fake a smile
When you've been doing it for a while
Baby, it's easy to fake a smile
When you've been doing it for a while
Hush boy, oh hush boy, don't say a word
Throw on a jersey and no one gets hurt
Hush girl, oh hush girl, just bat your eyes
Play our little game, play our little game [2x]
Hush boy, oh hush boy
Hush girl, oh hush girl
Play our little game
Play our little game
Play our little game
Play our little game
Won't you play with me?