Boy Meets Girl So What

"The day I met you
The sun began to shine
The world turned for the first time
When I made you mine
Oh the busy mien
Smiled for a while
When I made you mine, when I made you mine

Oh there's nothing else but love
There's nothing on else but love
It's something so special when
A boy meets a girl

On whole of the earth there's nothing else but love
It's something so special when
A boy meets a girl

Oh fix me a stiff little dream
Oh fetch me a stiff little (??)
My love's gone away for good
And there's nothing on else but love
There's nothing on else but love

The day you left me my world fell apart
The sun ceased to shine
That day you broke my heart
And London fell down into the Thames
When you broke my heart, when you broke my heart

Oh there's nothing else but love
There's nothing on else but love
It's something so special when
A girl leaves (?) a boy

On whole of the earth there's nothing else but love
It's something so special when
A girl meets a boy"

So wrote a songwriter hoping to sell
A tissue (?) of lies to the record label
"Oh all the old clichés they'll never mind
I'll stir their emotions for the hundredth time"

Oh there's quite enough romance
Peddled around these days
Without you adding to it
Oh don't make it worse

On whole of the earth there's something else but love
A boy meets a girl, so what?
Boy meets girl, so what?
Oh why not put your brain into gear
And weep about something other than love?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?

Oh why not put your brain into gear
And weep about something other than love?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?
A boy meets a girl, so what?

notes:

Malcolm:

This was our longest song so far. It's not at all commercial as a single, but still. There's a fairly flagrant borrowing from a Public Image Limited song in it - a song on Metal Box called Poptones, I think. The lyric was a call for people to write about other subjects than love, which I think is a fair comment.

What first appears to be a heartfelt love song quickly becomes a biting jab at the love song "industry" in general.  A so-called "new version" appears on the 1989 At War EP.

The Thames (pronounced "temz") is a famous river in southern England that runs through London and leads to the ocean.

found on: The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth, At War EP

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