Real Men - Joe Jackson

Take your mind back, I don’t know when

Sometime when it always seemed to be just us and them

Girls that wore pink, boys that wore blue

Boys that always grew up better men than me and you

What’s a man now, what’s a man mean?

Is he rough or is he rugged, cultural and clean?

Now it’s all changed, it’s got to change more

We think it’s getting better but nobody’s really sure

And so it goes, go 'round again

But now and then we wonder who the real men are

See the nice boys dancing in pairs

Golden earring, golden tan, blow-wave in the hair

Sure they’re all straight, straight as a line

All the guys are macho, see the leather shine

You don’t want to sound dumb, don’t want to offend

So don’t call me a faggot, not unless you are a friend

Then if you’re tall, handsome and strong

You can wear the uniform and I could play along

And so it goes, go 'round again

But now and then we wonder who the real men are

Time to get scared, time to change plan

Don’t know how to treat a lady, don’t know how to be a man

Time to admit what you call defeat

'Cause there’s women running past you now and you just drag your feet

Man makes a gun, man goes to war

Man can kill and man can drink and man can take a whore

Kill all the blacks, kill all the reds

If there’s war between the sexes then there’ll be no people left

And so it goes, go 'round again

But now and then we wonder who the real men are

And so it goes, go 'round again

But now and then we wonder who the real men are

And so it goes, go 'round again

But now and then we wonder who the real men are