Susie D.-

In his song "The Saturday boy", Billy Bragg rhymes "unrequited" with "never invited":

"I'll never forget the first day I met her
That September morning was clear and fresh
The way she spoke and laughed at my jokes
And the way she rubbed herself
Against the edge of my desk
She became a magic mystery to me
And we'd sit together in double
History twice a week
And some days we'd walk the same way home
And it's surprising how quick
A little rain can clear the streets
We dreamed of her and compared our dreams
But that was all that I ever tasted
She lied to me with her body you see
I lied to myself 'bout the chances I'd wasted

"The times we were close
Were far and few between
In the darkness at the dances in the school canteen
Did she close her eyes like I did
As we held each other tight
And la la la la la la la la means I love you

"She danced with me and I still hold that memory
Soft and sweet
And I stare up at her window
As I walk down her street
But I never made the first team,
I just made the first team laugh
And she never came to the phone
She was always in the bath
I had to look in the dictionary
To find out the meaning of unrequited
While she was giving herself for free
At a party to which I was never invited

"I never understood my failings then
And I hide my humble hopes now
Thinking back she made us want her
A girl not old enough to shave her legs"

In "Still suitable for miners: Billy Bragg: The official biography", Andrew Collins writes of the song:

"At sixteen [in 1973] ... in the week of his exams [O Levels], he fell in love with a girl from another school and couldn't eat or speak, let alone remember in what year the Corn Laws were repealed.
"The girl's name was Kim. This cursed experience of one-way romance later found its way into a song, 'The Saturday Boy' (on 1984's 'Brewing Up' album), but at this confused stage, all Billy could do was spew out his love in an entire exercise book full of poems, which, naturally, he presented to Kim -- with no discernible comeback whatsoever. (They'd met on a week-long drama course in North Wales, working with the Theatre Clwyd -- 'I thought I'd made some sort of mystical connection.') As it says in the song, 'In the end it took me a dictionary/To find out the meaning of the word unrequited/While she was giving herself for free/At a party to which I was never invited.'
"As a postscript, on 10 April 1985, when Billy was playing a Save The GLC gig at Barking Assembly Hall, Kim turned up with her mum clutching 'the **** book', and presented herself to the would-be suitor of yesteryear backstage. Acute embarrassment was the order of the day. 'No doubt the book will turn up at Sotheby's [Collins' book was based on interviews that predate the popularity of Ebay] one day. And I'll buy it!'
"So. O Levels. Thanks to 'a girl not old enough to shave her legs', he failed the lot."