(The Continuing Adventures Of) The Girl About Town - Helen Love

Well I’m hanging around with the girl about town

She can’t stand up from falling down

We’re in the gutter and looking up

And wishing on the stars

Says «Twenty years ago today

I was a Welsh girl in the USA

I met a boy on Ligger street

Who stole my heart»

«Yeah, we danced all night to the sounds of The Ramones

He had a punkrock guitar that I played when we got home

He knew a drummer with a pink haircut and his sister joined the band

Six months later we signed a deal and we headed for Japan»

«Now I live on the fourteenth floor of tower block estate

And when I’m drunk I see the lights shine over Swansea Bay

I wish I was back…

I wish I was back…

I wish I was back…

I wish I was back…

Back in the New York groove.»

Well I’m hanging around with the girl about town

She can’t stand up from falling down

She’s got plastic badge stuck across her heart

Says «gimme teenage kicks»

Says «Twenty years ago today

I was a Welsh girl in the USA

I fell in love with a boy from Queens

And quit the band.»

«Spent all my money on a cocktail dress with matching silver shoes

And a purple souped-up travellator David Bowie used to use

We bought some drugs and we hit the road on the hottest summer day

But he left me for a singer in a disco band in a nightclub in L.A.»

«Now I live on the fourteenth floor of tower block estate

And when I’m drunk I see the lights shine over Swansea Bay

I wish I was back…

I wish I was back…

I wish I was back…

I wish I was back…

Back in the New York groove.»

«I'm the girl about town that you heard of

Girl about town.»