[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
If someone tried, you'd realise
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
If someone tried, you'd realise
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Chorus]
If someone cried, you'd sympathise
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world

[Bridge]
At midnight in desperation
Imagine total teenage destruction

[Interlude]

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
But if someone tried, you'd realise
(You'd realise and sympathise)
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world

[Chorus]
If someone cried, you'd sympathise
(You'd sympathise and realise)
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Outro]
It's not the end