And invitations to teenage parties 
Dress in white one said, with quotations 
From someone?s wife, a famous writer 
In the nineteen-twenties 
When you?re young you find inspiration 
In anyone who?s ever gone 
And opened up a closing door 
She said: we were never feeling bored 
?cause we were never being boring 
We had too much time to find for ourselves 
And we were never being boring 
We dressed up and fought, then thought: make amends 
And we were never holding back or worried that 
Time would come to an end. 
When I went I left from the station 
With a haversack and some trepidation 
Someone said: if you?re not careful 
You?ll have nothing left and nothing to care for 
In the nineteen-seventies 
But I sat back and looking forward 
My shoes were high and I had scored 
I?d bolted through a closing door 
I would never find myself feeling bored 
Now I sit with different faces 
In rented rooms and foreign places 
All the people I was kissing 
Some are here and some are missing 
In the nineteen-nineties 
I never dreamt that I would get to be 
The creature that I always meant to be 
But I thought in spite of dreams 
You?d be sitting somewhere here with me. 