Helen Love

Teenage Soap Opera

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

The 5 o'clock alarm and your mother's downstairs

The radio's on as she's cleaning round the chairs

Got to get ready for the bus at eight

She's on a final written warning so she can't be late

You better get yourself off to school now

Or you won't get there at all...

 

You're starring in a...

Teenage heartbreak soap opera

 

Your brother's in the mirror counting spots again

He used to have 25, now he's got 10

You can't find your books and your homework's late

And the vitamins your mother left, you forgot to take

You left your coat by the back door

And the cat slept in it all night

And your best friend texted to tell you

That you're going to get in a fight

 

You're starring in a...

Teenage heartbreak soap opera

A tale of loss and how the world forgot you

A teenage heartbreak soap opera

A standing ovation picking up an Oscar

 

There's cellotape marks on your bedroom wall

From the pictures you made when you were small

Your computer still runs on Windows 98

And your dad don’t care because he thinks it's great

 

School's out early cos the heating's gone down

You can't go home so you go to town

Looking at the faces of the people so sad

Hoping that your life won't turn out that bad

You're running out of expectations

They were never even really high

And you're looking for an explanation

For the way that you feel inside

 

You're starring in a...

Teenage heartbreak soap opera

A tale of loss and how the world forgot  you

A teenage heartbreak soap opera

A standing ovation picking up an Oscar