Released: June 26, 1989
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
A windy day
The cars in slow formation
Not far away
A final destination
One mother's son
His father's distant gaze, regretting
Where they went wrong
He always found it too upsetting
[Verse 2]
Me and my friend
We lived our lives completely
From start to end
You and your friend, so sweetly
With strength and pride
In spite of everything, and swimming
Against the tide
To obstinately hope of winning
[Verse 3]
And at the end
Your funny uncle staring
At all your friends
With military bearing
And stopped to stand
To smile and speak of you directly
Goodbye, shake hands
Like you did everything correctly
[Outro]
To wipe away the tears
No more pain, no fear
No sorrow or dying
No waiting or crying
These former things have passed away
Another life begins today
A windy day
The cars in slow formation
Not far away
A final destination
One mother's son
His father's distant gaze, regretting
Where they went wrong
He always found it too upsetting
[Verse 2]
Me and my friend
We lived our lives completely
From start to end
You and your friend, so sweetly
With strength and pride
In spite of everything, and swimming
Against the tide
To obstinately hope of winning
[Verse 3]
And at the end
Your funny uncle staring
At all your friends
With military bearing
And stopped to stand
To smile and speak of you directly
Goodbye, shake hands
Like you did everything correctly
[Outro]
To wipe away the tears
No more pain, no fear
No sorrow or dying
No waiting or crying
These former things have passed away
Another life begins today
more tracks from the album
Introspective: Further Listening 1988 – 1989
- Always on My Mind / In My House
- Don Juan (Demo)
- Domino Dancing (Demo)
- Domino Dancing (Alternative U.S. Mix)
- The Sound of the Atom Splitting (Extended Mix) [7" Version]
- Don Juan (Disco Mix) [12" Version]
- Losing My Mind (Disco Mix) [12" Version]
- Left to My Own Devices [7" Version]
- It’s Alright [10" Version]
- What Keeps Mankind Alive?
- One of the Crowd
- I’m Not Scared
- Left to My Own Devices
- It’s Alright
- I Want a Dog
- I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too) [Extended Version]
- Domino Dancing
- So Sorry, I Said (Demo for Liza)
- Nothing Has Been Proved (Demo for Dusty)
- Your Funny Uncle
- It’s Alright [7" Version]
From the albums
- In Depth (1989)
- Alternative (1995)
- Introspective: Further Listening 1988 – 1989 (2001)
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