Released: October 12, 2012
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
In his imagination
He's flying high
His thoughts are wings
Taking him up
Into the sky
In his imagination
He's anywhere
When he floats back down to earth
He doesn't want to live there
Tonight he's working the midnight shift
Arriving at ten
Learning how slowly 12 can turn
Into 7 am
He's up to his eyes
In stuff he'll despise
The same as every weekday
But inside his head
He's easily led
And in his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
He tells me his mother says
He should be glad to be employed
Unlike so many young folk today
But he's not exactly overjoyed
He's up to his eyes
In stuff he'll despise
The same as every weekday
But inside his head
He's easily led
And in his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
Monday evening
I see he's back with a smile on his face
Says he's had a call from London
And been offered a place
He's leaving next week
The future's not bleak
He's going to be an artist
He's got an idea
Could be a career
He knows he's one of the smartest
Flying away
Through his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
He's flying high
His thoughts are wings
Taking him up
Into the sky
In his imagination
He's anywhere
When he floats back down to earth
He doesn't want to live there
Tonight he's working the midnight shift
Arriving at ten
Learning how slowly 12 can turn
Into 7 am
He's up to his eyes
In stuff he'll despise
The same as every weekday
But inside his head
He's easily led
And in his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
He tells me his mother says
He should be glad to be employed
Unlike so many young folk today
But he's not exactly overjoyed
He's up to his eyes
In stuff he'll despise
The same as every weekday
But inside his head
He's easily led
And in his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
Monday evening
I see he's back with a smile on his face
Says he's had a call from London
And been offered a place
He's leaving next week
The future's not bleak
He's going to be an artist
He's got an idea
Could be a career
He knows he's one of the smartest
Flying away
Through his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
He's flying away
In his imagination
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 album
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