Oxford Street - Everything but the Girl
When I was ten I thought my brother was God
He'd lie in bed, turn on the light with a fishing rod
I learned the names of all his football team
And I still remembered them when I was nineteen
Strange the things that I remember still
Shouts from the playground
When I was home and ill
My sister taught me all that she learned there
When we grew up, we said
We'd share a flat somewhere
When I was seventeen, London meant Oxford Street
Where I grew up there were no factories
There was a school and shops and some fields and trees
And rows of houses one by one appeared
I was born in one lived there for eighteen years
Then when I was nineteen
I thought the Humber would be
The gateway from my little world into the real world
But there's no real world, we live side by side
And sometimes collide
When I was seventeen, London meant Oxford Street
It was a little world
I grew up in a little world
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The story is a sad one, told many times.
The story of my life in trying times.
Just add water, stir in lime.
How the west was won and where it got us.
R.E.M.
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