She makes a home and she stays mum   About the things she might have done   She keeps her eyes firm on the ground, to set her own life   Makes up her face and not her mind, to be a wife      There was a time away back then   She might have thought to think again   But then through dolls and schoolyard games, like ma before her   She learned girls play the family way' don't look for more      She's just playing, playing safe   Playing houses, safe as houses      Here on this street when they were kids   He built his dreams with coloured bricks   But comes the time for him to prove that he's a man now   He gets a wife and makes his move to three doors down      He's playing, playing safe   Playing houses, safe as houses      For there was no-one there to say   It didn't have to be that way   You never get the best of you   When you do what they expect you to      You've heard it all, how you're no use   You're born to fail, so follow suit   But if you feel and got a dream, don't dare ignore it   Cos that is what you've got to be, you must go for it      Don't play it, play it safe   A plague on houses, safe as houses