Helen Love

First Boyfriend

Disco: It's My Club And I'll Play What I Want To [2007]
Autor: Helen Love © Elefant Publishing

Met her boyfriend by the escalator

May the 14th 1978

She drunk his Cola said “See ya later” 

That was their very first date

Spent all summer in the skate city

He was the king of the black ?

Like Tony Alva in the Lords of Dogtown

Eating chips down the Tottenham Court Road

Smoking menthol fags and dancing to the Buzzcocks 

Every Saturday night it would be

All summer long hiding her love-bites

Kryptonics and 360’s

 

16 years going on 17

Hot summer nights and new scenes

New wave and punk rock music

Come on baby lets get to it

 

Hey I love you! You’re my first boyfriend 

I’ll love you to the end

Hey I love you! You’re my first boyfriend

I painted your name on every subway wall in town

 

Holding hands kissing on the night bus

Top deck, outta sight

Throwing fags and laughing at the skin heads

Down the front having a fight

Saturday morning, Surrey Skateboards

Checking out the trucks and wheels

Somebody said that Stacey Peralta

Is outside doing a 720

Love; kiss run: sing; shout jump!

Every day is a summer day

On the last bus home

Kissing and cuddling

Punk rock nights and skateboard days

 

16 years going on 17

Hot summer nights and new scenes

New wave and punk rock music

Come on baby lets get to it

 

Hey I love you! You’re my first boyfriend 

I’ll love you to the end

Hey I love you! You’re my first boyfriend 

I painted your name on every subway wall in town

 

You were hanging off the lions in Trafalgar Square

You had Tartan trousers and orange hair

It was a hot summer day and there were skateboarders everywhere

I took a chance, I didn’t care

If I shut my eyes I’m straight back there

In the sunshine, holding hands with my first boyfriend