Oxford Street - 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

And I still remembered them when I was nineteen, yeah

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 grew 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 Humbler 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

There is no real world

We live side by side and sometimes collide, yeah