Floods of tears and doors slamming
  Stamping feet across the landing
  Because of your obligation
  To stay home and fight
  Sitting down to a composition
  Test the limits of your inhibition
  If the phone hasn't rung by midnight
  It's over tonight
    If someone tried, you'd realize
  It's just a boy or a girl
  It's not the end of the world
    Piles of toast and broken promises
  Among the books and pens and reading glasses
  It seems there's no escape from the humdrum
  It's over and done
    If someone tried, you'd realize
  It's just a boy or a girl
  It's not the end of the world
  If someone cried, you'd sympathize
  It's just a boy or a girl
  It's not the end of the world
    At midnight in desperation
  Imagine total teenage destruction
    The Prophets all predicted extinction
  The Virgin spoke in apparitions
  And if it all came to pass now
  You feel we'd all deserve it somehow
    But if someone tried (you'd realize)
  You'd realize (and sympathize)
  It's just a boy or a girl
  It's not the end of the world
  If someone cried (you'd sympathize)
  You'd sympathize (and realize)
  It's just a boy or a girl
  It's not the end of the world
  It's not the end