I'm afraid that from today our meeting   Must be temporarily postponed   It seems our parents followed us one evening   Caught us walking one another home      Now I have been confined till further notice   Told I should be thoroughly ashamed   And for all the good that it will do me   They've only themselves to blame      I don't understand a word they're saying   Telling me it's for our own good   Do they think that we're just children playing   How can we be so misunderstood      I am a man the same as any other   Younger though I may be in my years   Tell me I'm a child who should know better   And you won't see me holding back the tears      Can't they get it through their heads I love you   Must I try so hard to explain   If we're reported missing in the morning   Then they've only themselves to blame      They've only themselves to blame   They've only themselves, only themselves   Only themselves, only themselves to blame