From the Transformer album. In 1972 I kept switching favourites. Which is what I love about good albums. Play one track to death and then move onto another. As a teenager this happened a lot with girls too. Fascinated by one and then suddenly your head gets turned and bang ..a lot of tears and feeling bad. This song connects with another of those youth camps I went on. It sounds like I went on tons but in total it must have been 5.
Anyway one year we went on a camp to Cowes. In summer. I was going out with a girl called Lynne. We had got together because another girl Gwenda had broken my heart. Anyway going out with Lynne was great. All innocent stuff. Kissing. Holding hands. Meeting at the Blackburn library to study. But there were new girls at the youth club. And my head was turned and I decided to break up with Lynne. Took me 3 days to find the right moment and just before the bus left to come home I told her.
Callously I was in the back of the bus singing "I'm So Free" by Lou Reed while she was pretending to be happy enough down the front. Turned out though she wasn't pretending. She didn't mind breaking up. Oh yeah she was sad for 5 minutes but that was it. I had no reason to feel bad. But now I felt bad in other ways. By the end of the bus trip I was trying to get her to talk to me but she was having none of it.
I then spent the next four weeks trying to get her back.
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