Cry If You Want Lyrics

 Once it was just innocence
 Brash ideas and insolence
 But you will never get away
 With the things you say today
 
 But you can try if you want
 
 Dont' you get embarrassed when you read the precious things you said
 Many many years ago when life appeared rosy red
 No one ever shared your bed
 Nothing ever filled your head
 Except yourself and little Ted
 And scary dreams that you were dead.
 Don't you want to hide your face
 When going through your teenage books
 And read the kind of crap you wrote
 About "Ban the Bomb" and city crooks
 Think about how long it took
 To get over that sudden "Yuk"
 When in the mirror you would look
 Well now my son you're well in stook
 
  Cry if you want  Cry if you want
 
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Didn't you drive a banger and a gallon didn't get you far
 Should have been a famous star
 But that ain't what you really are
 You could shout your last harrah
 While they are propping up the bar
 Maybe things were better then
 Before you led a promised life
 Rash commitements and heavy raps and left wing spiel all compromised
 You fall in love with other's wives
 Drive 'em nuts with empty lies
 Angry 'cos you lost the prize
 Forgot the color of their eyes.
 
  Cry if you want  Cry if you wnat
 
 Let your tears flow Let your past go
 
 Don't you get embarrassed when you think about the way you were
 Yesterday the day before when you were young with much to learn
 Aren't you glad it's your last term
 No more acting lowly worm
 You can make the suckers squirm
 When you tell them how much you earn
 Don't you feel ashamed at all the bitterness you keep inside
 Does your ego save your face "I had a go - I really tried"
 Now you know your leaders lied
 Does it stop you acting snide
 Or are you still a boy that cried
 Tears now surely long since dried.
 
  Cry if you want  Cry if you want