It's safe in the city, to love in a doorway   To wrangle some screams from the dawn   And isn't it me, putting pain in a stranger?   Like a portrait in flesh, who trails on a leash   Will you see that I'm scared and I'm lonely?   So I'll break up my room, and yawn and I   Run to the centre of things   Where the knowing one says      Boys, boys, its a sweet thing   Boys, boys, its a sweet thing, sweet thing   If you want it, boys, get it here, thing   'Cause hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing      I'm glad that you're older than me   Makes me feel important and free   Does that make you smile, isn't that me?   I'm in your way, and I'll steal every moment   If this trade is a curse, then I'll bless you   And turn to the crossroads of Hamburg, as in      Boys, boys, its a sweet thing   Boys, boys, its a sweet thing, sweet thing   If you want it, boys, get it here, thing   'Cause hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing