"Oxford Street" by Everything But The Girl - Oxford Street, London, UK
N 51° 30.909 W 000° 08.541
30U E 698273 N 5710985
Oxford Street runs for approximately one and a half miles from Marble Arch at the north east corner of Hyde Park, through Oxford Circus to St Giles Circus, at the intersection with Charing Cross Road and Tottenham Court Road.
Waymark Code: WMJDCZ
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/03/2013
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The song "Oxford Street" is by "Everything But The Girl".
Wikipedia
tells us about the group:
Everything but the Girl (often shortened EBTG) was a
British musical duo, formed in Hull during 1982, consisting of lead singer
and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer
Ben Watt. The duo's most successful single was a Todd Terry remix of
"Missing" charting in several countries in 1994.
They are currently inactive, although vocalist Tracey Thorn hinted that they
may perform again someday. They have not performed publicly since 2000.
Watt and Thorn are also a couple; they are very private about their
relationship and personal life. For some time, it was not a publicised fact
that they were a couple, or that they had married subsequently. The duo have
expressed a strong desire to raise their three children with as much privacy
as possible.
The
Song Lyrics website includes the lyrics:
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