Soultime - Graham Parker

When I was a boy I never felt The weight I’m feeling

I had a crowd around me And that was that

I’d get on the bus and go to the Ata every weekend

And feel the ultraviolet show the fluff up on my collar

Yeah

They’d play Otis Redding Sam and Dave and Wilson Pickett

Prince Buster The Skatelites and the Bees Would be buzzing their horns

The boys would dance like robots The girls would walk a fashionable slink

Now here I am like some old man Trying to recall the way the way it was

Then suddenly that boy is me And I’m right back there once again

Soultime

I’m in soultime

Oh yeah

We never tried to change the world It didn’t need changing

We were the in crowd yeah And that was that

Graduating from a Lambretta to a Triumph Herald car

Was the only future in sight Oh and that was that

One night there was a rumble and I got head butted yeah

But those boys could not take that girl away from me

I took a handkerchief and wiped the blood way from my nose

And got right back on the dance floor And that was that

Now here we are one or two scars Trying to recall the way the way it was

But now I know where I am coming from Oooh yeah I say

Soultime

I’m in soultime

Soultime

Soultime

Oooh yeah soultime