Flip Side Lyrics | OLDER

Flip side baby '76
Grew up free and got our kicks
Riding choppers, three chord rockers
Long hot summers and space hoppers

We had those records on rotate, long playing super stars
Echo down throughout the years the distant sound of life on mars
But now our denim's faded like our dreams
Bleached to bland, digitised and coming back in memes

Flip side baby '76
Grew up free and got our kicks
Riding choppers, three chord rockers
Long hot summers and space hoppers

We knew their names, their faces, no-go places, neighbourhoods
Tea-time callings dragged us all in from our dens deep in the woods
But now those landscapes where we free-ranged in our youth
Choked with cars and high-rise flats, charging points and future-proofed

Flip side baby '76
Grew up free and got our kicks
Riding choppers, three chord rockers
Long hot summers and Space Hoppers

Time keeps marching on, leaving everything we loved
In it's wake, a wave of change, first a stream then a flood
Of tears we shed for younger days
Before the colours of our prime, turned the shade of autumn greys

Tomorrow's World was soaring slingshot into space
When a Viking far home landed in some far-flung place
We were bright eyed, bushey tailed, floating on a monorail
Captains of the Concorde laughing at the Holy Grail
Those summer days seemed to last a lifetime

Space Hoppers to pill poppers
The kids have all left home
Gob stoppers to beta blockers
We're growing old alone

Playing games and calling round, climbing high and falling down
The kids have all left home
Making camps and building ramps, growing cramps and super champs
We're growing old alone

Space Hoppers to pill poppers
The kids have all left home
Gob stoppers to beta blockers
We're growing old alone

Catch you on the flip side baby
Catch you on the flip side baby