Coordinates: 51°20′43″N 0°03′13″W / 51.3453°N 0.0535°W / 51.3453; -0.0535
Selsdon is an area located in the southern suburbs of the London Borough of Croydon. The suburb was developed during the inter-war period during the 1920s and 1930s, and is remarkable for its many Art Deco houses. It is also well known for the Selsdon Park Hotel, the venue of a 1970 meeting of the Conservative Shadow Cabinet to settle the party manifesto for the impending general election. Labour Party leader Harold Wilson coined the phrase Selsdon Man to describe the free market approach which was agreed, and the Selsdon Group was later formed within the Conservative Party to campaign for its retention.
One side of the residential area of Selsdon is bordered by Selsdon Wood, and the whole area used to be part of Selsdon Park Estate, once well known as hunting and shooting grounds in the area. In the early 1920s the estate was broken up and divided into smallholdings.
After concerns were raised about the rapid development of the village a committee was formed to ensure that an area of 200 acres (0.81 km2) would be set aside and saved for a nature reserve and bird sanctuary which was opened to the public in 1936 and given to the National Trust after Coulsdon and Purley District Council and the Corporation of Croydon agreed to manage it jointly. Selsdon Wood now consists of five large meadows surrounded by extensive woodland and ancient hedges and it still retains the character of a historical woodland. In the second meadow of the Selsdon Wood area there is a bomb crater, and another in Selsdon recreation ground just inside the woods which are closed off. Much wildlife may be found in the wooded areas of Selsdon such as deer, and more recently parakeets.
Oh Celestine you keep the candle burning
Oh Celestine so tiny dressed in blue
It's there to see
It's meant to be
You said to me
Oh Celestine
When I came to you
My mind was going nowhere
Within my dreams until you
Breathed life back into me
Oh Celestine the brightest star is your star
Oh Celestine you're shining down upon me
I must have faith
I must believe
You said to meYou gave me the key
New beginnings call to me
And take me where I'm meant
To sing my way across the sea
Oh Celestine you keep my fire burning
Oh Celestine my guiding light forever
It's there to see
It's meant to be
You said to me
Oh Celestine the brightest star is your star
Oh Celestine you're shining down upon me
I must have faith
I must believe
You said to me
Celestine
Oh she is hot, she's hot, she's hot
She's just a wild and wicked slut
And she lives inside my head and stops me sleeping
And when I think she's finally gone
Some guy arrives and turns her on
Then she parties until dawn
This can't go on
Celestine
Get out my dreams
You're killing me so slowly
So many men, so many fights
So many parties and late nights
She plumbs the depths and hits the heights
That Celestine
She pretends that she can't hear me
She pretends she's nowhere near me
She just goes quiet and pretends that she's not in
But Celestine I know you're there
In your exotic underwear
And you are fixing up your hair now, Celestine
Celestine
Get out my dreams
You're killing me so slowly
My lover looked into my eyes
And I could tell by his surprise
It was not me he saw in there but Celestine
And now it's her that he lusts after
I can hear that wicked laughter
Still he comes to me but I know where he's been
Celestine
Get out my dreams
You're killing me so slowly
Celestine
Get out my dreams
You're killing me so slowly
My lover hasn't got a clue
He doesn't know that he's untrue
And it's not me he makes love to but Celestine
Oh yes she's hot, she's hot, she's hot
I guess she's everything I'm not
And she lives inside my head and stops me sleeping
Oh Celestine you keep the candle burning
Oh Celestine so tiny dressed in blue
It's there to see
It's meant to be
You said to me
Oh Celestine
When I came to you
My mind was going nowhere
Within my dreams until you
Breathed life back into me
Oh Celestine the brightest star is your star
Oh Celestine you're shining down upon me
I must have faith
I must believe
You said to me
You gave me the key
New beginnings call to me
And take me where I'm meant
To sing my way across the sea
Oh Celestine you keep my fire burning
Oh Celestine my guiding light forever
It's there to see
It's meant to be
You said to me
Oh Celestine the brightest star is your star
Oh Celestine you're shining down upon me
I must have faith
I must believe
You said to me
I've been trying to find the right words
But they always seem to hit the page wrong
You see I tend to fight words
I breathe 'em into life, and they're gone
I need some louder speaking actions
They do what letters could never do
You see, you are my addiction
I need more than words to show you
So listen to me, listen
Listen to my heartbeat
I'd like to think you understand me
But I never really like to assume
So you never have to ask me
I'ma let my actions tell you the tru-hu-huth
For you-hu-hu-hu
There is nothing I wouldn't go through-hu-hu-hu
And if you need some proo-hu-hu-oof
You can find it in what I do-hu-hu-hu
And I could tell you everyday
Just how much I want you
I-I-I-I I've never been good with words
But I went and wrote this song for you
So listen to me, listen
Listen to my heartbeat
So listen to me, listen
Listen to my heartbeat
Listen to my heartbeat
Listen to my heartbeat
Baby I need you to listen, open up your ears
Pay attention, let go of your fears
I'm not trying to be that dude that got those people in your business
I'm just trying to love you, can I get a witness?
Oh. Woah
Let the church say amen (amen)
Cause I know that you need a man and I'm gon' do whatever I can
Cause stop with all this and get to the kissing
You know what your missing
So listen to me, listen
Listen to my heartbeat
So listen to me, listen
Listen to my heartbeat
Listen to my heartbeat
Ssh...listen,
To the cry of a child
A new beginning
and the truth implied.
Ssh...listen,
to the vagaries of rain,
that stops short of the desert
And deluges the plains.
And listen to the nature
of your love,
your reasons for living
when reason's not enough.
Ssh...listen
to the paradox of youth,
the feeling when life
is pregnant with truth.
Ssh...listen,
to the reflections of your worlds
as the mirrors of paradigm,
and life unfolds.
And listen
to the kingdoms choice bequeths
From the elysian fields
To beyond the river styx.
And listen
to the insane prediction
reality weavers
(Acosta y C. Vásquez J. de la C.)
Celestina, Celestina
No me sigas provocando
Te volaste cuatro noche'
Y me dejaste encerrao'
Por tu culpa me botaron
Donde estaba trabajando
Celestina, Celestina
Quizás me estabas engañando (Bis)
Pórtate bien, Celestina
No me sigas provocando
No busques un tramojazo
Que después andas llorando (Bis)
Celestina, Celestina
Yo soy el que esta sufriendo
Por eso fue que te dije
Que no me sigas provocando
Celestina, Celestina
No me sigas engañando
Pórtate bien Celestina
Porque me estoy embejucando (Bis)
Pórtate bien, Celestina
No me sigas provocando
No busques un tramojazo
Que después andas llorando (Bis)
(1, 2, 3, 4!)
Celestine, my self-esteem is at an all time low
I'm holding on with both hands, but I'm ready to let go
Then I hear your voice and centuries of misery can't stop me
I know the night is young, b-b-b-but tomorrow we might not be
Keep the past in the past and notice
That I only ever did what I thought was right
Keep the past in the past and notice me tonight
Celestine, it's autumn now, it feels like an age
Even I know when the curtain falls, it's time to leave the stage
All I ask is will you lie to me, tell me that they can't stop me
I know the night is young, b-b-b-but tomorrow we might not be
Keep the past in the past and notice
That I only ever did what I thought was right
Keep the past in the past and notice me tonight
But the night's not long enough, (we're not strong enough)
(Woah, oh-woah, woah-oh)
No the night's not long enough, we're not strong enough, now
And if I could step back in time
I'd make no mistakes, I'd write all the songs
I'd meet all the girls who are beautiful now, but were miserable then
And tell them how this all turns out in the end (Woo!)
If I could step back in time
I'd make no mistakes, I'd write all the songs
I'd meet all the girls who are beautiful now but were miserable then, then, then!
Keep the past in the past and notice
That I only ever did what I thought was right
Keep the past in the past and notice me tonight
But the night's not long enough (we're not strong enough)
(Woah oh-woah, oh-woah)
No the night's not long enough, we're not strong enough, now
(Woah, oh-woah-oh-woah)