Wide Boy - Godley & Creme

Everybody knows;

he comes and goes

But the smell of his last cigarette still lingers in your clothes

So don’t be stupid and naive

He’s only playing cupid and no matter what he says he’s only skimming up the

cream

And he’s only stoking boilers while his engine gathers steam

He isn’t good enough

He isn’t good enough to me

He’s only using you

He’s only passing through

'Cause he’s a wide boy

Sitting in the back row

Necking with his girlfriend

Goin' to a go-go

Wide boy

Really goin' nowhere

Victim of the sixties

Mighty mighty mohair,

Mohair, mohair, mohair, mohair

Everybody knows when the sewer overflows

He’ll be the one that always comes upsSmelling like a rose

With one foot in your doorway (and one hand on your heart)

He’ll never do it your way

So don’t bother with the rubber gloves 'till the Turtle doves find a place to

stay

Cos' I saw Expresso Bongo when I was a kid so I know what I’m saying

He isn’t good enough

He isn’t good enough to me

He’s only using you

He’s only passing through

'Cause he’s a wide boy

Sitting in the back row

Necking with his girlfriend

Goin' to a go-go

Wide boy

Really goin' nowhere

Victim of the sixties

Mighty mighty mohair

Mohair, mohair, mohair, mohair

Wide boy

What is your secret?

Wide boy

You better fill me in

Why are all your suits italian

Is it the way I’m standing

You gotta keep your hand in

Everybody knows, everyone agrees

That you should not go crawling after him on your hands and knees

You’re being stupid and naive

And you may just be fallin' for a

Wide boy, wide boy, wide boy

Wide boy

Sitting in the back row

Necking with his girlfriend

Goin' to a go-go

Wide boy

Really goin' nowhere

Victim of the sixties

(sixties, sixties, sixties…)