Teenage clump

The springsteens

This is the first song I ever wrote that I was proud of. and I haven’t matched it since. I had the first line in my head for like a year, then I switched it round and had the second line. With that, I sat down at my guitar and played the first chords to the beatles’ I Should’ve Known Better. Then I thought I’d better do something interesting and I sang the second line really high. From then on I just sang the words as they came out and played the chords that felt right. The song’s about the girl I like. It’s sort of about my ambivalence towards her and my loneliness since she doesn’t know about any of this shit. The second verse is about the time I went for a walk round the block and it was raining and I was in this big old trenchcoat. I felt real low, I hadn’t seen that girl for a while since it was exams time. I took a piss in my school car park and it got all over my coat. Then I looked at the ads for flatmates on the front of the asian supermarket. I had this feeling come over me and I felt like I was in that scene in Breakfast at tiffanys where she’s looking for her cat at the end and I was the guy. I wished that the girl would call out to me across the street, but instead I pretended to kiss her bit I was actually kissing a rose that reached over a fence out of someone’s garden. God. Most of the lyrics mean the opposite of what they say but I understand them. God.