Released: September 5, 2012
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Andrew Dawson Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
When your heart is out of love
And you're feeling left behind
Seems the fates aren't on your side
And the fog has left you blind
When the pressure's pulling different ways
Finds you longing for some empty days
[Chorus]
I stop for some breathing space
I pause in the public race
Take time from all the time it takes
To make up for all the big mistakes
I gotta get out
I gotta get out
[Verse 2]
When your life runs out of steam
And you need a little time
If your muse is out of luck
You might need an extra rhyme
When your heart escapes your head and waits
In the growing queue that life creates
[Chorus]
I stop for some breathing space
Divert from the public race
Return to a private place
I know it's there just in case
I gotta get out
I gotta get out
[Bridge]
Far far away
I'm goin'
Far far away
I gotta get out (Oh-oh oh oh oh)
I gotta get out (Oh-oh oh oo oo)
[Verse 3]
There's a place beyond this world
Where the mountains meet the sky
It's a different state of mind
Like a dream where you can fly
Can I tell you this in confidence?
I need to regain that old innocence
[Chorus]
I stop for some breathing space
Divert from the public race
Return to a private place
I know it's there just in case
I gotta get out
I gotta get out
When your heart is out of love
And you're feeling left behind
Seems the fates aren't on your side
And the fog has left you blind
When the pressure's pulling different ways
Finds you longing for some empty days
[Chorus]
I stop for some breathing space
I pause in the public race
Take time from all the time it takes
To make up for all the big mistakes
I gotta get out
I gotta get out
[Verse 2]
When your life runs out of steam
And you need a little time
If your muse is out of luck
You might need an extra rhyme
When your heart escapes your head and waits
In the growing queue that life creates
[Chorus]
I stop for some breathing space
Divert from the public race
Return to a private place
I know it's there just in case
I gotta get out
I gotta get out
[Bridge]
Far far away
I'm goin'
Far far away
I gotta get out (Oh-oh oh oh oh)
I gotta get out (Oh-oh oh oo oo)
[Verse 3]
There's a place beyond this world
Where the mountains meet the sky
It's a different state of mind
Like a dream where you can fly
Can I tell you this in confidence?
I need to regain that old innocence
[Chorus]
I stop for some breathing space
Divert from the public race
Return to a private place
I know it's there just in case
I gotta get out
I gotta get out
more tracks from the album
Elysium: Further Listening 2011 – 2012
- Memory Of The Future (New Single Mix)
- Listening
- Give It a Go
- Winner
- The Way Through the Woods (Long Version)
- Ego Music
- She Pops (Demo)
- Vocal (Demo)
- Leaving (Side By Side Remix)
- Leaving (Freedom Remix)
- In Slow Motion (Demo)
- Requiem in Denim and Leopardskin
- Hell
- Leaving
- A Face Like That
- Your Early Stuff
- Hold On
- Everything Means Something
- I Started a Joke
- In His Imagination
- Inside
- Invisible
- Breathing Space
- Memory of the Future
- Leaving (Believe in PSB Mix)
From the albums
- Elysium (2012)
- Elysium: Further Listening 2011 – 2012 (2017)
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
- All Over the World (This Is A Dub)
- After All
- Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
- So Hard
- Breathing Space
- Radiophonic
- Memory of the Future