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, cultural and clean
Now it’s all change
It’s got to change more
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
Mmm mmm, mmm mmm, mmm mmm, ah ah ah ah

See the nice boys dancing in pairs
Golden earring
Golden tan
Blow-wave in their hair
Sure they’re all straight
Straight as a line
All the guys 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 faggot
Not unless you are a friend
Then if you’re tall, 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
Mmm mmm, mmm mmm, mmm mmm, ah ah ah ah

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 whore
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
And so it goes
Go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are
And so it goes
Go round again
But now and then we wonder who the real men are