Town Cryer

I'm the town crier and everybody knows

I'm a little down with a lifetime to go

Maybe you don't believe my heart is in the right place

Why don't you take a good look at my face

Other boys use the splendor of their trembling lip

They're so teddy bear tender and tragically hip



I'm never going to cry again

I'm going to be as strong as them

They say they'd die for love and then they live it out

They'll give you something to cry about

And suddenly you really fall to pieces



I'm the town crier and everybody knows

I'm a little down with a lifetime to go

Maybe you don't believe my heart is in the right place

Why don't you take a good look at my face

Other boys use the splendor of their trembling lip

They're so teddy bear tender and tragically hip



Love and unhappiness go arm in arm

Long suffering friends of your fatal charm

Living for the pity that you're going to get hurt

Just a little boy lost in a big man's shirt

And suddenly you really fall to pieces



I'm the town crier and everybody knows

I'm a little down with a lifetime to go

Maybe you don't believe my heart is in the right place

Why don't you take a good look at my face

Other boys use the splendor of their trembling lip

They're so teddy bear tender and tragically hip