Released: May 22, 2006
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Trevor Horn
[Verse 1]
Oh, I learned a lesson
From the twentieth century
I don't think we should just dismiss
After one hundred years
Of inhumanity
The lesson that I learned was this
[Chorus]
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
[Verse 2]
Well I bought a ticket
To the revolution
And I cheered when the statues fell
Everyone came
To destroy what was wicked
But they killed off what was good as well
[Chorus]
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
[Bridge]
Stay with me
This century
Together we're better
Better
Better
Better
[Verse 3]
Oh, I learned a lesson
From the twentieth century
It may be somewhat hit or miss
If you've certainty
'Bout the way it's all meant to be
The lesson that you need is this
[Chorus]
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
Oh, I learned a lesson
From the twentieth century
I don't think we should just dismiss
After one hundred years
Of inhumanity
The lesson that I learned was this
[Chorus]
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
[Verse 2]
Well I bought a ticket
To the revolution
And I cheered when the statues fell
Everyone came
To destroy what was wicked
But they killed off what was good as well
[Chorus]
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
[Bridge]
Stay with me
This century
Together we're better
Better
Better
Better
[Verse 3]
Oh, I learned a lesson
From the twentieth century
It may be somewhat hit or miss
If you've certainty
'Bout the way it's all meant to be
The lesson that you need is this
[Chorus]
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
Sometimes the solution
Is worse than the problem
Let's stay together
more tracks from the album
Fundamental: Further Listening 2005 – 2007
- Twentieth Century
- I’m With Stupid
- After the Event
- The Former Enfant Terrible
- A Certain ‘Je ne sais quoi’
- Ring Road (Demo)
- The Performance of My Life (Demo)
- One-Way Street (Demo)
- Dancing in the Dusk (Demo)
- Transfer
- The Sodom and Gomorrah Show (Original Demo)
- No Time For Tears (Orchestral Mix)
- God Willing (Original Full-Length Mix)
- Numb (Single Edit)
- Numb
- Integral (PSB Perfect Immaculate Mix)
- Psychological
- I Made My Excuses and Left
- Luna Park
- Girls Don’t Cry
- The Resurrectionist
- God Willing
- The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
- One Night
- Indefinite Leave to Remain
- Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
- Casanova in Hell
- Integral
- Minimal
- Integral (PSB Perfect Immaculate 7" Mix)
From the albums
- Fundamental (2006)
- Fundamental: Further Listening 2005 – 2007 (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
- All Over the World (This Is A Dub)
- After All
- Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
- So Hard
- Breathing Space
- Radiophonic
- Memory of the Future