Hugo's Wife - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

You’ll go right where you’ve got to

There was no good reason not to

Killer nights you would have died for

To consider and provide for

To protect and take good care of

They were never made aware of

What they were putting you through

So you did what you had to

And you held your head high

You helped your family get through it

They wanted to control you, but they couldn’t

You just wouldn’t let them do it

Now you couldn’t and you knew it

Not on your watch, not in this life

No, not Hugo’s wife

There were rules out on the front stairs

Acquisitions based on their affairs

Ignorance that was appalling

Which it was when they came calling

With the list they put you onto

Who do who and why they want to

Ruin more than just careers

There were rules on the front stairs

And you held your head high

You helped your family get through it

They wanted to control you, but they couldn’t

You just wouldn’t let them do it

Now you couldn’t and you knew it

Not on your watch, not in this life

No, not Hugo’s wife

Are you not or have you ever been?

Is there anyone that you’ll turn in?

Our best advice would be to save yourselves

Don’t be shy, lie and comply

Sit by while the accusations fly

Free and forward thinking’s being shelved

The radicals were refugees

There really were no guarantees

Like sanity and logic would return

Political audacity

That will go down in history

A lesson that we really didn’t learn

And you held your head high

You helped your family get through it

They wanted to control you, but they couldn’t

You just wouldn’t let them do it

Now you couldn’t and you knew it

Not on your watch, not in this life

No, not his wife

No, not Hugo’s wife

Not Hugo’s wife

No, not Hugo’s wife