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The First Big Weekend
Arab Strap

So that was the first big weekend of the summer

Starts Thursday as usual with the canteen quiz

And again no one wins the big cash prize


Later I do my sound bloke routine

By approaching Gina's new boyfriend

To say that he shouldn't feel that

There's any animosity between us

And then I even go and make peace

With her shouldn't have heard


Then on Friday night we went through to the arches

There was only one car going, so some of us had

To get the train, we got through quite late

Then we went to a pub to take the gear


There was no problems getting in

We saw some others waiting down

The front of the queue so we skipped in

It was a good night, everyone was nutted

And I ended up dancing with some blond girl


I thought she had been quite pretty

Until last night when Matthew informed me

That she had, in fact, been a pig


When the club finished we wandered the streets

For a while until we got to this 24-hour cafe

I didn't like the look of it so we left

And got a taxi back to Morag's flat

I couldn't sleep, so I sat about drinking

Someone else's strawberry tonic wine

And tried to keep everyone else up


Then at ten o'clock in the morning

We went downstairs to buy some drink

We had intended to watch the football in the afternoon

But we'd passed out by then and slept right through it

Awaking to that England had won two nil


Then we went to get the train home

And had a few in the station bar, we had some stuff

Left from the previous night's supplies, so when we got home

We decided to go down to John's Indie disco


Same story as Friday, lots of hugging

Lots of dancing etc, etc, I couldn't sleep again

So went to the park to look at the Toon

Taking a detour through the Playpark


To get in we had to climb over a ten foot steel fence

Which resulted in severe bruising of our hands

Legs and groins but we had a good laugh on the stuff

Especially the tube-slide, which pro doubles up

As a urinal for drunk teens, then we walked through the woods

To have a look at the Toon, big disappointment

But the mist on the lake was cool


Sunday afternoon we go up to John's with a lot of beer

In time to watch the Simpsons, it was a really good episode

About love always ending in tragedy except, of course

For Marge and Homer, it quite moving at the end

And to tell you the truth my eyes were a bit damp


Then we watched these young girls in swimsuits

Have a water fight in the street, we went up to the pub about ten

It was busy for a Sunday night, lots of people we know

Including my first ever girlfriend who I still find very attractive

Quite frankly but I didn't really speak to her

She's probably still a bitch, anyway


Her friend Gillian was there, I had a chat with her

She was still quite pleasant, at the same time, I watched

Malcolm make some terrible attempt to try and chat up a girl

We know called Jo, he made some remark about her skirt

That was barely there the previous night or something


I couldn't sleep again that night

Thanks to some seriously disturbing nightmares

Matthew says I should cut down on the cheese

Went out for the weekend, it lasted for ever

High with our friends, it's officially summer


I got some sleep eventually on Monday afternoon

It was a beautiful day and later that evening

Malcolm introduced me to the power of Merrydown

1.79 a liter, 8.2%, mmm, Judith and Laura came 'round

Later and we sat in my back garden and drank

Then Matthew came round and we went up the town

It's officially summer


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