Say what you want and leave your shyness home   Do what you want and write a little poem   Leave it for her and live another day   And you should leave it for her the girl around the way      Write down a list of things you want to do   Leave it in work because you want to live a little   Pick up the girl in someone's borrowed mini   Take her to dinner, use her boyfriend's money      Hey lady, put the phone down   Cancel all operations   Tell your friends to cool it   Your cover's blown I want to see you alone   Cancel all operations   Tell your friends to cool it   Your cover's blown      Planning a break is such a tricky thing   Because you move to the country, she comes back again   And then you move to the city but she goes abroad   Is she telling you something, is she getting bored?      I'll make a rough plan to sleep around   I'm in a rut I need a change   I'm a lazy rat if I am honest   My bold change of tack will fade out with the summer   I've got no appetite and all the girls are bummers      My baby doesn't look at me   The way I want her to look   She doesn't comprend   My baby's got it going on   She's got a friend hid in every street in this town      I want to go out but there's nobody home I'll go on my own   Thus starts the lonely walking   There's always too much talking I should have stayed home   She starts her cool caressing   The kid, she starts undressing   I should've stayed home   The dj's picking up speed   That's something I just don't need   I should've stayed home   The gossip's bearing down on me   The kids are pairing off in front of me   I should've stayed home   I should've stayed home   I think I'll go home      Listen lady, put the phone down   Cancel all operations   Tell your friends to cool it   Your cover's blown I need to see you alone   Cancel all operations   Tell your friends to cool it   Listen lady, leave your __ phone down   Cancel all operations    Tell your friends to cool it   Your cover's blown I need to see you alone   Cancel all operations   Tell your friends to cool it      Hey lady, meet my mum and dad   You're a strange aberration   In this land of potted plants and boxlike houses   Where the girls like mouses   Breathe a long sigh of resignation   You resign your self to keep on growing   Like the seeds you're sowing   You're a strange apparition   In this land of grammar schools and gala days   The ladies set in their ways   You had a long conversation   With a kid next door   He's a little slow   But in your favour, it shows      Cancel all operations   Tell your friends to move out to the sticks   Listen lady, leave the boy home   Cancel all operations   Tell your friends there's more to you than this