The Video Shop (An Ode to 80s Movies)

Born in the year of the punk

Grew up getting drunk

On Thunderbirds in the park

Dancing after dark

With the fairground

All around

Played in the arcade

Choking Double Dragon with 10p change

Drinking cherryade

And when we get a call

From the video shop

To say Rocky III is back in stock

I promise it won't come back late

And of course I'll rewind the tape

Now I look back on those days

But it's like squinting at dog-eared photos on a page

They camouflage from afar

And I wonder if they're not the same

As the memories I pride

Like all the shares and the likes

And when we get a call

From the video shop

To say Rocky III is back in stock

I promise not to return it late

And of course I'll rewind the tape

And when we get a call

From the video shop

To say Rocky III is back in stock

It won't come back late

And I swear I'll rewind the tape

And when we get a call

From the video shop

To say Rocky III is back in stock

It won't come back late

And I swear I'll rewind the tape