Arab Strap The First Big Weekend lyrics

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