Ben's Song (feat. Van Hughes)

So what I didn’t call her

Poor baby all alone

It felt better before she said I love you

And boys don’t like to talk on the phone

The promising man is a liar

That’s what they taught me at home

How can I live right in the middle of Romeo and Juliet

And Papa Was A Rolling Stone?

I wanna let her in but I'm worried that I'll leave her

When the love gets harder to see

What if I get tired of her

But I remember when the alimony checks didn’t come

And my mother would cry I told her I would never be like him

Oh I'm so tired

Tired of being a boy

I think I'm gonna start being a man

Two bedroom apartment

North tenth by the BQE

I haven’t made a cent so my mother pays rent

The apple isn’t far from the tree

I told her that I loved her

Now she thinks it’s a lie

Ain’t it funny I was tellin’ the truth

And the truth has got me terrified

I put up a wall around me

And suddenly somebody’s breaking in

Can you just hold on

I gotta clean up this mess inside

And I know I put it off for a while

But it’s hard to dig on the very first day of spring

I'm so tired tired of being a boy

Mmmm I think I'm gonna start being a man

I don’t need another reason

A reason to change my mind

A little bit of worry and fear ain’t gonna bring me down no no no (and you know that) I'm so tired of indecision

I'm ready to make my mind up

I gotta let her know that I'm ready

I’m ready to see where it goes

Lord knows I shoulda called her

I shoulda said it again on the phone

Thrown a tag on the bridge coulda carved it in stone

‘cause I'd rather be wrong than afraid of being left alone

I'm so tired

Tired of being a boy

I think I'm gonna start being a man

I think I’m gonna start being a man