Back in the day

The so-called day the ding-dong day
I don't know why I have to add that
perhaps to offset the fact that I would never genuinely
say 'back in the day' let's move on

I worked in London's vibrant Soho
and every lunchtime I'd head out to visit all
the record shops not the knocking shops
I don't know why you'd say that

And I'd work out that after rent and living expenses
caveat those were different times (Lou Reed voice)
I may be able to spend let's say max £20 a day
on records (as in vinyls if you must although
I wasn't averse to CDs and certainly in a second hand shop
a cassette could be very worthwhile VFM purchase)

Flicking through the racks
new releases, rereleases, recommendations, bargains
it was all I lived for, all I wanted

I was in my element
I was enraptured, I was
hiding out ooooooooooh
I can see that now I am
a very very mature man