Safe as houses

She makes a home and she stays mum

About the things she might have done

She keeps her eyes firm on the ground, to set her own life

Makes up her face and not her mind, to be a wife


There was a time away back then

She might have thought to think again

But then through dolls and schoolyard games, like ma before her

She learned girls play the family way' don't look for more


She's just playing, playing safe

Playing houses, safe as houses


Here on this street when they were kids

He built his dreams with coloured bricks

But comes the time for him to prove that he's a man now He gets a wife and makes his move to three doors down


He's playing, playing safe

Playing houses, safe as houses


For there was no-one there to say

It didn't have to be that way

You never get the best of you

When you do what they expect you to


You've heard it all, how you're no use

You're born to fail, so follow suit

But if you feel and got a dream, don't dare ignore it

Cos that is what you've got to be, you must go for it


Don't play it, play it safe

A plague on houses, safe as houses