Difficult Age
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Andy: “Aimed at the ‘Nonsuch’ sessions, but for some reason I never gave Colin and Dave the demo. Perhaps it was too close a cousin of ‘Blue Overall’. A touch of the autobiographicals going on here.”
Andy: “It's just occurred to me, you've entered masturbators corner with ‘In My Hand’, ‘Difficult Age’, ‘Pink Thing’ and ‘Shaking Skin House’ in a row. I've given too much away, the guilt. The guilt. Dating from 12th April 1990, this pulsating piece of perturbed pondering was aimed at Nonsuch, what an even longer album that could have been. But honestly, what age isn't difficult? The Devonian was particularly tough.”
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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
At 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
And how can they love a man who does that to himself?
[Thanks to Dave Franson]
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