Toast
Streetband Lyrics

Morning all. I'd like to tell you about when I was a young boy. Musta been three or four months old at the time. I didn't really know what I wanted, and if I did, I wouldn't have been able to tell anybody, 'cause all I could do was gurgle. So I sat there in me high-chair, thinking one day, looking at me tray and thinking what I'd give for a meal on there. So I started looking round to see what I could have. I was rubbing me eggy soldier in me head, trying to think, and then I looked in the corner and there's a little bread bin with its mouth open, just staring at me, like. And then I looked in and I saw bread.
The lyricist talks about how as a young boy, he sat in his high-chair, trying to figure out what he wanted to eat. He was attracted towards a bread bin and decided to have toast.

I thought, oh yeah, I'll have toast, A little piece of toast.
He decided to have toast from the bread he saw in the bread bin.

Well, then I started getting older I hated this, I hated that Expensive state was ludicrous And cafes couldn't cater For the finer things in life The upper crust was not for me I could tell that So I'd go back home Switch the kitchen light on Put the grill on Slip a slice under And have toast A little piece of toast
As the lyricist got older, he disliked things like fine dining and costly menu items. He preferred his homemade toast and would make it by turning on the grill and putting a slice of bread on it.

'Cause there's so much to choose from There's brown bread, white bread All sorts of wholemeal bread It comes in funny packages With writing on the side But it doesn't matter which one you have 'Cause when you cut the crusts off Have it with marmalade Or butter, cheese, tomatoes, beans, banana Or chocolate if you're strange It doesn't really matter Oh no, it all goes with toast Just toast
The lyricist talks about how there are many types of bread available and it doesn't really matter which one you choose as they all taste good with toast. He also mentions different things that can be paired with toast like marmalade, butter, cheese, tomatoes, beans, bananas or even chocolate.

That's toast Mmm yeah Just toast
Toast is a simple yet satisfying food item.

Well I go down the supermarket With me basket in me hand I'm walking from one counter to another Trying to find the bread stall But I can't find it anywhere And then I bump into a mother With a baby in a basket And she says Oh look, you've started him off again I come down here for a little bit of peace and quiet To get some bread to go home to make toast Just toast I like toast Yeah, but I don't half like toast
Lyricist talks about how he visits the supermarket to buy bread to make toast at home. He bumps into a mother who is annoyed by her kid starting to make noise again. Despite that, she expresses her love for toast.

OK, scrape that toast, boys Good, that's toast Yeah, just toast
A casual conversation among a group of men about toast.

I can't think about it any more. I've got to go and have some, it's no good Here listen, I'm getting a bit browned off standing here Me too Shall we go and have some toast? Good idea Why not? OK I've got the grill on Got any brown bread? Yeah Have you got wholemeal bread? Wheatmeal bread? All sorts of toast Let's go
The song ends with the lyricist and his friends discussing their love for toast and deciding to go have some together, and the different types of bread they might have with it.