Released: September 2, 1996
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Chris Porter Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
Cross a windy bridge
One winter night
Past Embankment Gardens
Enter warmth and light
[Pre-Chorus: Neil Tennant & Katie Kissoon]
Face the music (It's never easy)
Forget the chill
Face the future (It's never easy)
Find the will
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
If life is worth living, it's got to be done
One might be forgiven for thinking it's a life on the run
Many roads will cross through many lives
But somehow you survive
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
Look around
Picture what's in store
Is this the final edit
Or is the subject now a bore?
[Pre-Chorus: Neil Tennant & Katie Kissoon]
Don't shrug your shoulders (It's always easy)
You can't ignore
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
That life is worth living, it's still worth a damn
One might be forgiven for thinking it's something of a sham
Many words may make it sound contrived
But somehow we're alive
[Bridge: Neil Tennant]
The survivors, our heads bowed
The survivors, at memorials for other faces in the crowd
[Pre-Chorus: Neil Tennant & Katie Kissoon]
Teachers and artists (It's never easy)
And Saturday girls
In suits or sequins (It's never easy)
Or twinsets-and-pearls
[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Katie Kissoon, Neil Tennant & Katie Kissoon]
If life is worth living, it's got to be run
(Life is worth living, it's got to be run)
As a means of giving, not as a race to be won
(Means of giving, race to be won)
Many roads will run through many lives
But somehow we'll arrive
Many roads will run through many lives
But somewhere we'll survive
Cross a windy bridge
One winter night
Past Embankment Gardens
Enter warmth and light
[Pre-Chorus: Neil Tennant & Katie Kissoon]
Face the music (It's never easy)
Forget the chill
Face the future (It's never easy)
Find the will
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
If life is worth living, it's got to be done
One might be forgiven for thinking it's a life on the run
Many roads will cross through many lives
But somehow you survive
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
Look around
Picture what's in store
Is this the final edit
Or is the subject now a bore?
[Pre-Chorus: Neil Tennant & Katie Kissoon]
Don't shrug your shoulders (It's always easy)
You can't ignore
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
That life is worth living, it's still worth a damn
One might be forgiven for thinking it's something of a sham
Many words may make it sound contrived
But somehow we're alive
[Bridge: Neil Tennant]
The survivors, our heads bowed
The survivors, at memorials for other faces in the crowd
[Pre-Chorus: Neil Tennant & Katie Kissoon]
Teachers and artists (It's never easy)
And Saturday girls
In suits or sequins (It's never easy)
Or twinsets-and-pearls
[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Katie Kissoon, Neil Tennant & Katie Kissoon]
If life is worth living, it's got to be run
(Life is worth living, it's got to be run)
As a means of giving, not as a race to be won
(Means of giving, race to be won)
Many roads will run through many lives
But somehow we'll arrive
Many roads will run through many lives
But somewhere we'll survive
more tracks from the album
From the albums
- Bilingual (1996)
- Bilingual: Further Listening 1995 – 1997 (2001)
Pet Shop Boys popular songs
- West End Girls
- It’s a Sin
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
- Go West
- Always On My Mind
- Being Boring
- Suburbia
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Domino Dancing
- The Pop Kids
- Left to My Own Devices
- Rent
- New York City Boy
- Love etc.
- Love is a Bourgeois Construct
- Burning the heather
- Dreamland
- Closer to Heaven 3
- Footsteps
- Closer To Heaven / Left To My Own Devices
- Je T’aime Moi Non Plus
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Coconut 1 12" Mix) [Disco 2 Version]
- In His Imagination
- Sail Away