Take your mind back - I don't know when
Sometime when it always seemed
To be just us and them

Girls that wore pink
And 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

Is he cultural and clean
Now it's all change - it's got to change more
'Cause 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 gays are macho
Can't you see their leather shine

You don't want to sound dumb - don't want to offend
So don't call me a !@$)got
Not unless you are a friend

Then if you're tall and 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 !@^%
Kill all the blacks - kill all the reds
And 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