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Big Boy Pants

“Big Boy Pants” is track 5 on Rob Matare's Country album Storm Cellar, released October 7, 2026. Country songs about family and holding on: your mother's kitchen, the fixed fence, casseroles, and a shop with our name on it.

Rob MatareCountry2:22Home & Faith

“Big Boy Pants” lyrics

Put on your big boy pants

You got a gaming chair that cost more than my car
You got a hundred sneakers but you don't know where they are
You call me "mommy" when you want a snack
Honey, that's a problem, take it back
You ask me where the plates go every single night
You ask me how the washer works, I'm like, "all right"
It's cute for like a minute, then it isn't anymore
Now I'm picking up your socks off the floor

You're twenty-nine
You're not nineteen
You still eat cereal
For every meal I've seen

Put on your big boy pants
Call your mama back
Make your own dentist appointment
Put on your big boy pants

Big boy (big boy)
Pants on
Big boy

I don't need a father, I don't need a son
I don't need a project, I just wanted fun
I don't need a man who's got it all figured out
But I need one who knows what the trash is about
I'll give you one more week to be a grown-up guy
Pay a bill, fold a shirt, just try
If you can't, then baby, no hard feelings
I'll be out with a man who's got ceilings

You're twenty-nine
You're not nineteen
You still eat cereal
For every meal I've seen

Put on your big boy pants
Call your mama back
Make your own dentist appointment
Put on your big boy pants

Step one, feet in the leg holes
Step two, pull 'em up
Step three, button
Step four, look at you
Big boy
So proud

Put on your big boy pants
Call your mama back
Make your own dentist appointment
Put on your big boy pants

Big boy (big boy)
Pants on
Big boy

Lyrics written by Rob Matare. Written by me • made with AI. Artist visuals are digitally created.

More from Storm Cellar

  1. 1Storm Cellar3:10
  2. 2Kick It Up High2:20
  3. 3Called Him My Name2:45
  4. 4Bad Enough3:10
  5. 6Your Mother's Kitchen2:39
  6. 7Honest to a Fault3:01
  7. 8Nobody's Yelling3:15
  8. 9Tired of Being Good2:48
  9. 10Good Shoes, Bad Floor2:27
  10. 11The Picture We Picked2:12
  11. 12Odometer2:35
  12. 13Exit 422:43
  13. 14Nothing in the Glovebox2:29
  14. 15Tough It Out2:58
  15. 16Headlights Round the Bend3:12
  16. 17Fixed the Fence3:19
  17. 18The Dress Fits Now2:43
  18. 19Hard People3:18
  19. 20The Mechanic Called2:24
  20. 21The Apology Drawer2:35
  21. 22Somebody to Buy For2:20
  22. 23Casseroles3:15
  23. 24A Shop with Our Name1:59

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