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Spark
a match and light up that old Woodbine. Crowded around treasured
Wisden Almanacs. I fear a Woolworth life. Talking of leather-bound
first editions. Pick up your railway platform paperbacks. Spark
a match and light up that old Woodbine.No longer to be any distinction.
Between high and low: all to be revamped. I fear a Woolworth life.
Grey provincial bore, lost in commotion. Sceptical of the vulgar
cadillacs. Spark a match and light up that old Woodbine. Soon to
be all just one big audition. Nothing worthwhile is to be left intact.
I fear a Woolworth life. Pore over essays in 'The Listener'. Scholarship
boys, bicycles:a last stand. Spark a match and light up that old
Woodbine. I fear a Woolworth life. Images of 1957. A Managing Director
of a chain of raincoat shops, never had it so good 'New Look' wife
with a new fangled migraine. Dining table hewn from fine plywood.
Those raincoat shops, Never had it so good. Cans of Tizer in every
British fridge. Dining table hewn from fine plywood. A nation swathed
in affluence and Vimto. Cans of Tizer in every British fridge. Mink
grey rotary dial telephones. A nation swathed in affluence and Vimto
Bakelite nights waiting in petticoats. Mink grey rotary dial telephones.
That reassuring purr, voluptuous. Bakelite nights waiting in petticoats.
For a chain of Managing Directors. Yesterday... in the milk bar.
White-hot heat: an old social revolution. Melts like a soft Amaretti
biscuit. Shelved polytechnic textbook refugee, Austere vestige of
the days before everyone had designs on cover, inlay and spine.
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