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--- Everything But The Girl
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.