When I was 10 I wanted to explore the World
There were these older kids at school
who'd gone all the way to Somerset
Just to see Peter Gabriel's house
Peter Gabriel from Genesis
They way they'd dressed the way
their hair fell over their coat collars
It all happened because of music
I wanted to know why
I couldn't go to Somerset on my own
so I used Top of the pops as my World
Atlas
In 1974 I bought my first
single from Woollies in Redhill
I started to memorise
the charts to memorise the leagues
Tuesday lunchtime at 1245
Saturday afternoon at five o'clock
I didn't go to church I didn't need to
Green and yellow harvests
pink pies silver bells and the strange and
Important sound of the synthesiser
Over the border I'm growing older
heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day love is here to stay
Over the border I'm growing older
heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day love is here to stay
Kevin drove us to parties in his Morris Minor
And there were boys and
there was booze and mock Tudor semis
And first kisses and terrible chat up lines
But in the end the conversation
always turned to music
I was in love and I knew he loved me
because he made me a tape
I played it in my bedroom
I lived in my bedroom all of us did
Reading Smash Hits and Record Mirror
Paul Morley and the NME
Dave McCulloch and Sounds Modern
Eon and Modern English
Mute Why Zoo Factory
Cutting them up sucking
them in managing the story on our own
Over the border I'm growing older
heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day love is here to stay
Over the border I'm growing older
heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day love is here to stay
I had my mocks a month later
But I just wanted to listen to Dexys
New Order anything on postcard
A few weeks and I'd be free
A few weeks and music
wouldn't have to be
so private it would be there for
Me
It would be there for me and when I was married and when I had kids
Would Marc Bolan still be so important
Over the border I'm growing older
heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day love is here to stay
Over the border I'm growing older
heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day love is here to stay