Floods of tears and doors slamming   Stamping feet across the landing   Because of your obligation   To stay home and fight      Sitting down to a composition   Test the limits of your inhibition   If the phone hasn't rung by midnight   It's over tonight      If someone tried, you'd realize   It's just a boy or a girl   It's not the end of the worlds      Piles of toast and broken promises   Among the books and pens and reading glasses   It seems there's no escape from the humdrum   It's over and done      If someone tried, you'd realize   It's just a boy or a girl   It's not the end of the world      If someone cried, you'd sympathize   It's just a boy or a girl   It's not the end of the worlds      At midnight in desperation   Imagine total teenage destruction      The Prophets all predicted extinction   The virgin spoke in apparitions   And if it all came to pass now   You feel we'd all deserve it somehow      But if someone tried, you'd realize   (You'd realize)   (And sympathize)   It's just a boy or a girl   It's not the end of the world      If someone cried, you'd sympathize   (You'd sympathize)   (And realize)   It's just a boy or a girl   It's not the end of the world   It's not the end