I never went to Woolworths to buy wool
I went for the pick-n-mix
broken biscuits
and
to see Julia Higginbottom.

Next
wasn't even a shop then
it was something that came later
and Jigsaw
was a thing we did

they got rid of the old-school high street
and the old-school price of things
even
Ratners which sold krap rings
went to the dogs.

well
we can't stay locked in the past forever
the future always comes and they'll say
it frees you to be the you that you want
to be

personally
I prefer nineteen sixty-three
and things as they were when
I was seven.