Everything But the Girl Lyrics
"Oxford Street"

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 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 grew 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

There is no real world, we live side by side, and sometimes collide