- mama don't know it, daddy don't know it -
 a cocktail waitress turned me upside down
 (then she said I'd be her lover and darling)

 2 a.m. I'd board the silver train
 - mama don't know it, daddy don't know it -
 only to find her with her whips and chains
 then she said I'd be her one night stand 'cos

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 I'm living on my own (he's living on his own)
 out a dusk and out at dawn to wake the morning sun
 (he's living on his own) I'm living on my own
 (he's never going home till the night's gone)

 I let the dished pile up in the sink
 - mama don't know it, daddy don't know it -
 don't need to justify the bathroom stink
 (cos' I have broken out of teenage guidance)

 no one left to say what I should it
 - mama don't know it, daddy don't know it -
 don't like vegetables only meat
 that's why I feel like a cat in heat, yeah

 this is just the way I live my life
 I don't need a mother or a wife 'cos

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 some say I'm cruel and at times I'm mean
 - mama don't know it, daddy don't know it -
 I'd pick up a chick to get the homeground clean
 that's just the way that I want to be, yeah

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