Giles, Giles & Fripp Newly-Weds Lyrics

Newlyweds playing at husbands and wives,
Don't they know it's their lives they are gambling?

They dive in the deep end of life
With a weekend of nice "just what I've always wanted."

But on the other hand, she's got a ring, Love conquers everything,
Giving and taking a living and making it work (off to work).

He worries all day about fools at his door,
It's for sure there's no law against trying.

But on the other hand ...

Newlyweds playing at husbands and wives ...
and fools at his door becomes wolves at his door.

Older people pointed at him as he walked by and whispered to each other, ''Rodney is a sad young man because he's fat and ugly,'' but they whispered loud enough so that Rodney could hear, and this made him even sadder. Rodney said, ''I can hear what you are whispering, because I have extraordinary powers of hearing,'' and the older people would tell him that his hearing was as poor as his face was grotesque and that they had whispered as loud as they had on purpose.