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

Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic pop duo comprised of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Formed in London in 1981, they’ve released fourteen LPs–in addition to a myriad of theatrical, film, and ballet scores–and have charted forty-two UK Top 30 singles, four of them making it to number 1.