Your hair hangs in golden steps
You're a bonafide, in every respect
You are walking through streets that mean nothing to you
You believe you're above it and I don't really blame you
Maybe that's why you speak like a child
The things you're saying like I'm so free and so wild

And I believe it when you look in my eyes
You offer me a life and never lies
Least only the kind to make me smile

Your clothes are clean and your mind is productive
It shops in stores where only the best buy
You're cool and hard, never sound like a lecher
It's probably true but at least there's no lecture
I really like it when you speak like a child
The crazy sayings like I'm so free and so wild

You have to make a bargain with me now
A promise that you won't change somehow
No way, now how

Spent all day thinking about you
Spent all night coming to terms with it
Time and conditions are built to tame
Nothing lasts with age, so people say
But I will always try to feel the same

Spent all day thinking about you
Spent all night coming to terms with it
Time and conditions are built to tame
Nothing lasts with age, so people say
But I will always try to feel the same

I really like it when you speak like a child
I really like it when you speak like a child
The way you hate the homely rank and the file
The way you're so proud to be, oh, so free and so wild

I really like it when you speak like a child
I really like it when you speak like a child
I really like it when you speak like a child
The way you're so proud to be, oh, so free and so wild

I really like it when you speak like a child
I really like it when you speak like a child
I really like it when you speak like a child
The way you're so proud to be, oh, so free and so wild


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    Sounds like a guy breathlessly infatuated by a new love. He loves everything about them, even their quirks and doesn't want them to ever change as they lighten his spirit. Great crazy, happy, wild, poppy love song that really lifts my mood. How could you be grumpy listening to this?

    gerimerrymuffinon April 18, 2010   Link
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    I really like this song, but I'm not sure what it's about. I'm guessing it's about his girlfriend, and I picture her being a carefree blonde who doesn't care what others think.

    elixir808on December 07, 2004   Link
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    General Comment

    This song is about describing someone he likes and then exclaiming in vain that he doesn't want them to change for any reason. Probably a younger idealistic love shown here than in most of Weller's songs.

    Neonsolidon June 22, 2008   Link
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    This song was written right after ending The Jam at the end of '82. This is about the excitement, freshness, and feeling of freedom for what he was now building with The Style Council.

    stehayon February 03, 2023   Link

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