Your Mother Should Have Told You - Robert Palmer

Your looks are sensational

Where do I begin?

You’re so unbelievable

It must be a sin

I try to keep pace with you

But I never win

You’re on the attack again

I’ll have to give in

You look fully grown

I thought you’d have known

Your mother should have told you

Girls turn into women

Your mother should have warned you

You fall in love and then

Your mother should have told you

You’re sinking or you’re swimming

Your mother should have warned you

Boys turn into men

Her manners are counterfeit

But she knows how to act

And when you get used to it

It’s better than fact

You never can tell the real from pretend

You liked the beginning

Well, wait’til the end

You look fully formed

You should have been warned

Your mother should have told you

Girls turn into women

Your mother should have warned you

You fall in love and then

Your mother should have told you

You’re sinking or you’re swimming

Your mother should have warned you

Boys turn into men

Guitar solo

You look fully grown

I thought you’d have known

Your mother should have told you

Girls turn into women

Your mother should have warned you

Boys turn into men

Your looks are sensational

Where do I begin?

You’re so unbelievable

It must be a sin

I thought you’d have known

You look fully grown

… attend to your own

Your mother should have told you

Girls turn into women

Your mother should have warned you

You fall in love and then

Your mother should have told you

You’re sinking or you’re swimming

Your mother should have warned you

Boys turn into men

Your mother should have told you

Girls turn into women

Your mother should have told you

You fall in love and then

Your mother should have told you

You’re sinking or you’re swimming

Your mother should have told you

Boys turn into men