Helen Love

You And Stacy

Disco: Day-Glo Dreams [2013]
Autor: Helen Jones © Elefant Publishing

Turn up the synth and the linn drum beat

The strobe lights flash when you move your feet

You left school in 1980, you never went to university

 

Got a flat on the 13th floor, and a job at the Virgin Megastore

And every weekend you and Stacy, were living it up in the 1980s

 

Your mum and dad said you better settle down

Find the sweetest boy you can in town

But you were the girls with the Day-Glo dreams

Never liked the boys in the stonewashed jeans

 

Stacy said

We buy our clothes at C + A, and we cut them up so they look ok

We don't care what our friends all say, cos we look fantastic anyway!

 

Turn up the synth and the linn drum beat

The strobe lights flash when you move your feet

You left school in 1980, you never went to University

 

Got a flat on the 13th floor, and a job at the Virgin Megastore

And every weekend you and Stacy, were living it up in the 1980s

 

Your mum and dad tell you what to do

But you were young and tough and independent too

You were the girls in the bus stop every night

You were the girls coming home in the morning light

 

Stacy said

We took ideas from The Face, on clothes and make up, music taste

We kept our lipstick in a case with a master plan for our escape!

 

Turn up the synth and the linn drum beat

The strobe lights flash when you move your feet

You left school in 1980, you never went to university

 

Got a flat on the 13th floor, and a job at the Virgin Megastore

And every weekend you and Stacy, were living it up in the 1980s

 

One day like a bolt out of the blue

You met a boy you never expected to

5 years later and you're back at school

With your own little girl walking right next to you

 

Ironing clothes, or down the shops

Buying Fairy liquid and Co Co Pops

Cleaning shoes and finding socks

Oh just for one day let's turn back the clocks and...