Released: September 7, 2012
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys Andrew Dawson
[Verse 1]
I thought it was like a film
Reviewed but never seen
Where everybody played themselves
As a drama king or queen
The music was overwhelming
Glittering and thin
Solemn and shabby like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Verse 2]
I visualised the flashback
School, punk rock, success
Parties, too much of everything
The clichés, the candles, the mess
[Pre-Chorus]
Lucien in the scene with David
Brian in a tux
A copy of Blitz in Zanzibar
Old Hollywood redux
Ossie's last collection
Biba's closing sale
A little more rouge on the powdered cheeks
But the base is pale
[Chorus]
This is our last chance for goodbye
Let the music begin
Shining and soaring like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Verse 3]
It ended with a motorbike
A search for evidence
Poring over old photographs
To make it all fake sense
Glamorous in its own way
Shouting above the din
Solemn and shabby like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Pre-Chorus]
Johnny's wearing brothel-creepers
Malcolm's round the block
Adam's in a Jarman film
The look is 'Let It Rock'
A Johnson's leather jacket
Hair by Keith at Smile
All you need to make it big
Is sex and style
[Chorus]
This is our last chance for goodbye
Let the music begin
Shining and soaring like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Chorus]
This is our last chance for goodbye
Let the music begin
Shining and soaring like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Chorus]
This is our last chance for goodbye
Let the music begin
Shining and soaring like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Chorus]
This is our last chance for goodbye
Let the music begin
Shining and soaring like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
I thought it was like a film
Reviewed but never seen
Where everybody played themselves
As a drama king or queen
The music was overwhelming
Glittering and thin
Solemn and shabby like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Verse 2]
I visualised the flashback
School, punk rock, success
Parties, too much of everything
The clichés, the candles, the mess
[Pre-Chorus]
Lucien in the scene with David
Brian in a tux
A copy of Blitz in Zanzibar
Old Hollywood redux
Ossie's last collection
Biba's closing sale
A little more rouge on the powdered cheeks
But the base is pale
[Chorus]
This is our last chance for goodbye
Let the music begin
Shining and soaring like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Verse 3]
It ended with a motorbike
A search for evidence
Poring over old photographs
To make it all fake sense
Glamorous in its own way
Shouting above the din
Solemn and shabby like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Pre-Chorus]
Johnny's wearing brothel-creepers
Malcolm's round the block
Adam's in a Jarman film
The look is 'Let It Rock'
A Johnson's leather jacket
Hair by Keith at Smile
All you need to make it big
Is sex and style
[Chorus]
This is our last chance for goodbye
Let the music begin
Shining and soaring like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Chorus]
This is our last chance for goodbye
Let the music begin
Shining and soaring like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Chorus]
This is our last chance for goodbye
Let the music begin
Shining and soaring like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
[Chorus]
This is our last chance for goodbye
Let the music begin
Shining and soaring like a requiem
In denim and leopardskin
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
- 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