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 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