Big World - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

This is the story of a most unfortunate girl

Millicent, forever ill, at odds with this world

Big bad world

She has nametags on her clothing

So that she can be herself

When she goes out into it

She comes back as someone else

She lost herself

Millicent is doing it again

Millicent is losing everything

She can’t go out dancing

Or go jogging in the park

Her idea of fun is a Walkman and some dark

Big world

Millicent is running out of space

Gloria is blowing her away

Scratched her name upon the door

And locked herself away

Just ran out of space

But ain’t it hard to be yourself, these days

Millicent is losing everything

Millicent is under polythene