Saint Etienne - Over the Border lyrics

When I was 10 I wanted to explore the world
There were these older kids at school who'd
Gone all the way to Somerset
Just to see Peter Gabriel's house
(Peter Gabriel from Genesis)
They way they'd dressed
The way their hair fell
Over their coat collars
It all happened because of music
I wanted to know why
I couldn't go to Somerset on my own
So I used Top of the Pops as my world atlas

In 1974, I bought my first single
From Woollies in Redhill
I started to memorise the charts
To memorise the leagues
Tuesday lunchtime at 12: 45
Saturday afternoon at five o'clock
I didn't go to church, I didn't need to
Green and yellow Harvests, pink Pyes
Silver Bells and the strange and
Important sound of the synthesiser

Over the border, I'm growing older
Heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day, love is here to stay
Over the border, I'm growing older
Heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day, love is here to stay

Kevin drove us to parties in his Morris Minor
And there were boys, and there was booze
And mock Tudor semis
And first kisses, and terrible chat up lines
But in the end
The conversation always turned to music

I was in love
And I knew he loved me because
He made me a tape i played it in my bedroom
I lived in my bedroom, all of us did
Reading Smash Hit's and Record Mirror
Paul Morley and the NME
Dave McCulloch and Sounds
Modern Eon and Modern English
Mute, Why, Zoo, Factory
Cutting them up, sucking them in
Managing the story on our own

Over the border, I'm growing older
Heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day, love is here to stay
Over the border, I'm growing older
Heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day, love is here to stay

I had my mocks a month later
But I just wanted to listen
To Dexys, New Order, anything on Postcard
A few weeks and I'd be free
A few weeks and music wouldn't
Have to be so private, it would be there for
Me it would be there for me
And when I was married, and when I had kids
Would Marc Bolan still be so important?

Over the border, I'm growing older
Heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day, love is here to stay
Over the border, I'm growing older
Heaven only knows what's on it's way
Every single day, love is here to stay