wake up at 6 00 get an early start mum s packed the bags and shouting up to my brother with stern remarks saying if they wanna come they better hurl their arse out of their sacks and get down their fast and we gotta leave soon and the journey s far they re outside trying to work the car and they beep twice as we heard it start we run outside and squash in the backseat beth gets in the gap in my mam s feet sat in the footwell in the passenger side my mum tells to get our head down if we pass police and ask if we have wees the girls run back but they re daft cause of me i tell her that i have but i m holding it til we pass mc ds you know what that means in fact imma see if i can grab me one of them new happy meals toys that i got last week after a while i m like mum will you slap steve he s jabbing on my back when i m trying to get some damn sleep she says mind your language and slaps me everyone laughs as we park the car and all run inside like a stampede the places we go when we re young they re like footprints they fade in the sun to remember those days ain t enough we go back if only we could the places we go when we re young they re like footprints they fade in the sun to remember those days ain t enough we go back if only we could we arrive and our caravan looks like a space ship our new neighbors say hello we laugh and we joke when they ask how many of us can that hold one day i hope my mum says that young girls around my age i should go over and play but no i say i will later and then i go red when dave say i won t we re shouting out things to do and i m thinking i ll go for a swim and then cruise around but they re off to beach so i m gonna go too otherwise i m gonna think that i m losing out we got a dingy in the boot but shaun says he s got a bb gun to shoot it down i m saying prove it you d never do it if you do i d drown mum i ain t sharing a room with him if i do when i get home im moving out she laughs and says be my guest i guess it would be useful to lose a mouth but then winks and blows me a kiss just to let me know that shes foolin round and it cools me down if god gave me wings i wouldn t use em now  the places we go when we re young they re like footprints they fade in the sun to remember those days ain t enough we go back if only we could the places we go when we re young they re like footprints they fade in the sun to remember those days ain t enough we go back if only we could i told her that i d meet her in arcade around half 8 and i can t wait when i seen her my heart raced i was halfway through killing zombies on resident evil and told her it was a hard game she sayin it s easy and starts playin turns out shes better than me so i say i let her beat me to save face she s cooler than the girls at my school i get this feeling i can t shake i need let her know soon that it s fine by me if we never part ways shes gonna think i m a fool she says i ain t half strange then kisses my cheek now i m finished for the week and i start feeling a harsh pain i don t wanna leave yet there s nothing more that i need trust me they say we re too young for love but these butterflies must mean something we re at the end here didn t ever expect tears guess the brightest flames burn fast told her we d meet again next year