A Hundred Challenging Things a Boy Can Do - Darren Hayes

It was a coal town

He spent his whole life in a hole in the ground

Smashing the pieces of earth

He never really saw the sky

It was a hard life

But little black rocks make televisions work

And put food on the table

Until the unions cast him aside

Now there's a hundred challenging things a boy can do

And you've waved goodbye and held more tears in

Than anyone ever should

And all my sorrows pale to insignificance

That's why I love you

She was in a strange land

She taught herself to read from doing crosswords

And hiding her accent

She cast her dreams aside

She had a spark in her eye

She never saw her son on his wedding day

Or our cherry blossoms

Falling down from the sky

Now there's a hundred challenging things a boy can do

And you've waved goodbye and held more tears in

Than anyone ever should

And all my sorrow pales to insignificance

That's why I love you

No coal mines, no, not a trace

Now shopping malls take their place

No picket lines

The sacrifice, dreams overrun

Hopes for a future for her son in Ollerton

And there's a hundred challenging things a boy can do

(Hundred challenging, hundred challenging)

(Hundred challenging things a boy can do)

And you've waved goodbye and held more tears in

Than anyone ever should

All my sorrows pale in to insignificance

That's why she loves you

(Hundred challenging, hundred challenging)

(Hundred challenging things a boy can do)

Hundred challenging, hundred challenging

Hundred challenging things a boy can do

Hundred challenging, hundred challenging

Hundred challenging things a boy can do

(Wave goodbye)

Hundred challenging, hundred challenging

(Wave goodbye)

Hundred challenging, say goodbye

(Wave goodbye)

Hundred challenging, hundred challenging

(Wave goodbye)

Hundred challenging, say goodbye to you