Oxford Street lyrics

Song information

Artist: Everything But The Girl
Album: Idlewild

Lyrics

When I was ten I thought my brother was god - he'd lie in bed and turn out the
Light with a fishing rod. I learned the names of all his football team, aid i
Still remembered them when I was nineteen
Strange the things deal 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
Grow up, we said, we'd share a flat somewhere
When I was seventeen, london meant oxford street
Where I grow 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 and
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 is 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