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 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 its way every single day love is here to stay over the border i m growing older heaven only knows what s on its 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 hits 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 its way every single day love is here to stay over the border i m growing older heaven only knows what s on its 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 its way every single day love is here to stay over the border i m growing older heaven only knows what s on its way every single day love is here to stay1