Never Be a Boy: Navigating Adolescence With Tess Clare

Tess Clare’s Never Be a Boy takes us on a spellbinding journey through the tangled web of adolescent emotions and awakenings.

With soulful, earthy vocals, she invites us to walk a mile in her teenage shoes, immersing us in those awkward yet poignant rites of passage.

Her vivid lyricism conjures up the seemingly innocuous rituals of youth, like exchanging secrets at sleepovers, getting ready together in the closet sanctuary, and joking about running away.

Yet Tess Clare infuses these ordinary moments with an undercurrent of longing and confusion that resonates with stark relatability.

We’ve all been there, crushed by the weight of feelings we can’t quite name or understand. 

The instrumentation is a fellow traveller, shape-shifting between pensive introspection and a soaring, anthemic fervour that mirrors the turbulence churning beneath still waters.

Tess Clare’s vocals seamlessly transition from vulnerability to defiance, each verse peeling back another layer of the complex inner landscape she’s navigating.

What emerges is a triumphant reclamation of self and a rallying cry against the voices that try to dictate who we should be and how we should love.

Tess Clare doesn’t offer easy answers but rather celebrates the beauty in the questions themselves and the curveballs life throws our way that force us to evolve.

An enthralling musical accomplishment, Never Be a Boy envelops listeners, cocooning them in the shared struggle of grappling with identity, desire, and the bittersweet iridescence of first love.

With poetic authenticity, Tess Clare has crafted an ode to the delicious agony of those formative years—an anthem for every soul that’s ever felt unprepared for the storm of sensations awaiting them on the awkward path to selfhood.

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Tess Clare Never Be a Boy Lyrics

13, party at your place
Secrets, dress up, and french braids 
Promised we’re not staying up too late
Sleeping inches from your face 
Thinking things that I don’t say
We joke about just running away 

And we’ll be changing in the closet 
Spilling all the gossip 
Pushing down the thought

I wish you wouldn’t talk about boys so much
‘Cause they’re breaking your heart and I hate their guts 
Too bad I could never be a boy
Boy
Boy

16, pit in my stomach 
You say you think you love him 
I don’t mean to be so distant
I can’t be around you when you’re

Changing in the closet 
Waiting on a plot twist 
Pushing down the thought

I wish you wouldn’t talk about boys so much
‘Cause they’re breaking your heart and I hate their guts 
Too bad I could never be a boy
Boy
Boy
Don’t think I’ve ever been this mixed up
Butterflies, summertime, when we touch 
Too bad I could never be a boy
Boy
Boy

Now I only see you on internet 
I wonder if you knew the things I never said 
If I saw you on the west end
Would I feel now what I felt then 

I wish you wouldn’t talk about boys so much
‘Cause they’re breaking your heart and I hate their guts 
Too bad I could never be a boy
Boy 

I wish you wouldn’t talk about boys so much
‘Cause they’re breaking your heart and I hate their guts 
Too bad I could never be a boy
Boy
Boy
Don’t think I’ve ever been this mixed up
Butterflies, summertime, when we touch 
Wish you would’ve loved me like a boy 
Boy
Boy