Wednesday, April 1, 2026

"Boys Do Fall In Love" by Robin Gibb

1984 / #37

Rate Your Music score: 3.17 out of 5!

"At the end of the day, making love to a paper moon..."

The late Robin Gibb was one of the Gibb brothers who was a member of the Bee Gees, and this great lost hit is another that has a rather unusual line that I thought had to be a misheard lyric but is actually real.

"At the end of the day, making love to a paper moon." No way in hell was that the real lyrics. I have a record of this tune, and every time I listened to it, I tried to figure out what Robin was really singing. But nowadays, with lyrics websites, we learn that those were the actual lyrics.

Robin, you're weird.

What is that line even supposed to mean? It sounds like something involving a prop for a high school dance. If that's what the dances at my school were like, I'm glad I didn't go to any of them. From what I've heard though, most of the dances consisted of people throwing tantrums over the outcome of the big basketball game and fighting with the DJ because he only played music that was 50 years old.