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
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- Elysium (2012)
- Elysium: Further Listening 2011 – 2012 (2017)
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- 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