The Boy Wonders

I brought you some francs

From my travelling chest

You'll spare me the thanks

Till you know I'm the best

So, come Hogmonay

When love comes in slurs

Resolutions I'll make

You can label them hers

We threw our hands up high

Nearly touched the sky

We clicked our heels and spat and swore

We'd never let it die

All those boy wonders

Sold their medals when they saw this train

Now this boy wonders

When he'll feel the fall of honest rain

I can from high land

Where the hopefuls have to hesitate

Now this boy wonders

Why the words were never worth the wait

I'm waiting, waiting

In pastel paper, pink over grey

We wrap, wrap, wrap and chuck, chuck away

But, the poor excuse, they peddle as their prose

Dry you tears, tie your tongue

And you're never sixteen

And I'll give you a glimpse

Of the hard and the clean

And my traveling chest

Will be open to you

And boy, will you learn

That you haven't a clue

I even asked my best friend

But he could not explain

It hit me, when I left him

I felt the rain and called it genius

Called it genius

All those boy wonders

Sold their medals when they saw this train

Now this boy wonders

When he'll feel the fall of honest rain

I came from high land

Here the hopefuls have to hesitate

Now this boy wonders

Why the words were never worth the wait