Released: July 19, 1999
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
The prospect of sun
Page after page
Of black and white portraits
A silver age
Scent of a sunset
On a stage
Difficult music
A modern age
[Verse 2]
The palace is still
A frozen cage
Bayonets gleam
A silver rage
Earthquakes predicted
And someday soon
A total eclipse
Of the sun and the moon
[Outro]
Earthquakes predicted
And someday soon
A total eclipse
Of the sun and the moon
The prospect of sun
Page after page
Of black and white portraits
A silver age
Scent of a sunset
On a stage
Difficult music
A modern age
[Verse 2]
The palace is still
A frozen cage
Bayonets gleam
A silver rage
Earthquakes predicted
And someday soon
A total eclipse
Of the sun and the moon
[Outro]
Earthquakes predicted
And someday soon
A total eclipse
Of the sun and the moon
more tracks from the album
Format: B-Sides and Bonus Tracks 1996-2009
- The Calm Before The Storm
- I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today
- Gin and Jag
- Nightlife
- Transparent
- How I Learned to Hate Rock ‘n’ Roll
- Up and Down
- Delusions of Grandeur
- Betrayed
- After the Event
- Blue on Blue
- Between Two Islands
- The Former Enfant Terrible
- Disco Potential
- Always
- Confidential (Demo for Tina)
- In the Night (1995)
- Casting a Shadow
- We’re The Pet Shop Boys
- Discoteca (New Version)
- The Boy Who Couldn’t Keep His Clothes On
- Party Song
- Searching For the Face of Jesus
- Friendly Fire
- We’re All Criminals Now
- Girls Don’t Cry
- The Resurrectionist
- The Truck-Driver and His Mate
- Sexy Northerner
- The Ghost of Myself
- Silver Age
- Screaming
- In Private
- Bright Young Things
- View From Your Balcony
- Hit and Miss
- Lies
- No Time for Tears (Single Mix)
From the albums
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