Released: June 26, 1989
Songwriter: Marshall Jefferson Sterling Void Paris Brightledge
Producer: Trevor Horn
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
Dictation being forced in Afghanistan
Revolution in South Africa taking a stand
People in Eurasia on the brink of oppression
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
I hope it's going to be alright
I hope the music plays forever
[Interlude]
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
Forests falling at a desperate pace
The earth is dying and desert taking its place
People under pressure on the brink of starvation
[Chorus: Neil Tennant & Tessa Niles]
I hope it's gonna be alright
(Alright, alright, alright)
'Cause the music plays forever
(For it goes on and on and on and on and on)
I hope it's gonna be alright
(On and on and on and on forever)
And the music plays forever
(Alright, alright)
[Verse 3: Neil Tennant]
Generations will come and go
But there's one thing for sure
Music is our life's foundation
And shall succeed all the nations to come
[Chorus: Neil Tennant & Tessa Niles]
(Alright, alright, alright, alright)
'Cause the music plays forever
(For it goes on and on and on and on and on)
I hope it's gonna be alright
(On and on and on and on forever)
And the music plays forever
[Verse 4: Neil Tennant]
The year three thousand may still come to pass
But the music shall last
I can hear it on a timeless wavelength
Never dissipating, but giving us strength
[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Tessa Niles & Chris Lowe]
(It's alright)
I think it's gonna be alright
(It's gonna be)
(Alright, alright, alright, alright)
[Chorus: Neil Tennant & Tessa Niles]
'Cause the music plays forever
(Gonna be alright)
If the music plays forever
(It will be alright)
If the music plays forever
(I think it's gonna be alright)
It's gonna be alright
(If the music plays)
[Outro: Tessa Niles]
(It's al... alright)
(It's alright)
(For it goes on and on and on and on)
Dictation being forced in Afghanistan
Revolution in South Africa taking a stand
People in Eurasia on the brink of oppression
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
I hope it's going to be alright
I hope the music plays forever
[Interlude]
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
Forests falling at a desperate pace
The earth is dying and desert taking its place
People under pressure on the brink of starvation
[Chorus: Neil Tennant & Tessa Niles]
I hope it's gonna be alright
(Alright, alright, alright)
'Cause the music plays forever
(For it goes on and on and on and on and on)
I hope it's gonna be alright
(On and on and on and on forever)
And the music plays forever
(Alright, alright)
[Verse 3: Neil Tennant]
Generations will come and go
But there's one thing for sure
Music is our life's foundation
And shall succeed all the nations to come
[Chorus: Neil Tennant & Tessa Niles]
(Alright, alright, alright, alright)
'Cause the music plays forever
(For it goes on and on and on and on and on)
I hope it's gonna be alright
(On and on and on and on forever)
And the music plays forever
[Verse 4: Neil Tennant]
The year three thousand may still come to pass
But the music shall last
I can hear it on a timeless wavelength
Never dissipating, but giving us strength
[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Tessa Niles & Chris Lowe]
(It's alright)
I think it's gonna be alright
(It's gonna be)
(Alright, alright, alright, alright)
[Chorus: Neil Tennant & Tessa Niles]
'Cause the music plays forever
(Gonna be alright)
If the music plays forever
(It will be alright)
If the music plays forever
(I think it's gonna be alright)
It's gonna be alright
(If the music plays)
[Outro: Tessa Niles]
(It's al... alright)
(It's alright)
(For it goes on and on and on and on)
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- New York City Boy (US Radio Edit)
- Miracles
- Heart
- I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing [7" Version]
- Jealousy [7" Version]
- I Get Along [Radio Edit]
- A Red Letter Day
- Rent [7" Version]
- Left to My Own Devices [7" Version]
- It’s Alright [7" Version]
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Single Version)
- Being Boring [7" Edit]
- Love Comes Quickly [7" Version]
- West End Girls [7"Version]
- Suburbia [Video Mix]
- Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)
- Liberation
- It’s a Sin
- Go West
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Somewhere
- Paninaro ’95
- Single-Bilingual
- Home and Dry [Radio Edit]
- Flamboyant
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Before
- Domino Dancing
- You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk
- Always On My Mind
- So Hard
- Se a Vida É (That’s the Way Life Is)
- DJ Culture
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From the albums
- In Depth (1989)
- Discography (1991)
- Videography (The Singles Collection on Video) (1991)
- Essential (1998)
- Introspective: Further Listening 1988 – 1989 (2001)
- PopArt: The Hits (2003)
- PopArt (The Videos) (2003)
- Party (2009)
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