Featuring: Elton John
Songwriter: Gilbert O’Sullivan
Producer: StarGate Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
Oh in a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promise myself
To treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top
Will throw myself off
In an effort to
Make it clear to whoever
What it's like when you're shattered
Left standing in the lurch
At a church where people saying
“My god that's tough
She's stood him up
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home”
As I did on my own
Alone again naturally
[Verse 2: Elton John]
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful
Bright and gay
Looking forward to--
Well who wouldn't do?
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much
As a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about god in his mercy
Who if He really does exist
Why did he desert me
In my hour of need?
I truly am indeed
Alone again naturally
[Bridge: Neil Tennant and Elton John]
Seems to me that there are more hearts
Broken in the world that can't be mended
Left unattended
What do we do?
What do we do?
[Interlude]
Alone again naturally
[Verse 3: Elton John, Neil Tennant, Both]
Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried
When my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand
Why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start
With a heart
So badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again naturally
Alone again naturally
Oh in a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promise myself
To treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top
Will throw myself off
In an effort to
Make it clear to whoever
What it's like when you're shattered
Left standing in the lurch
At a church where people saying
“My god that's tough
She's stood him up
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home”
As I did on my own
Alone again naturally
[Verse 2: Elton John]
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful
Bright and gay
Looking forward to--
Well who wouldn't do?
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much
As a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about god in his mercy
Who if He really does exist
Why did he desert me
In my hour of need?
I truly am indeed
Alone again naturally
[Bridge: Neil Tennant and Elton John]
Seems to me that there are more hearts
Broken in the world that can't be mended
Left unattended
What do we do?
What do we do?
[Interlude]
Alone again naturally
[Verse 3: Elton John, Neil Tennant, Both]
Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried
When my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand
Why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start
With a heart
So badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again naturally
Alone again naturally
more tracks from the album
Release: Further Listening 2001 – 2004
- It’s a Sin (Barfly Version)
- Jack and Jill Party (Demo)
- No Excuse (Demo)
- A Powerful Friend
- Bright Young Things (Demo)
- Flamboyant [Single Mix]
- Love Life
- Here (PSB New Extended Mix)
- Always
- The Samurai In Autumn
- Baby (Demo)
- Flamboyant (Original Demo)
- Numb (Demo)
- Alone Again, Naturally
- If Looks Could Kill (John Peel Version)
- A Powerful Friend (John Peel Version)
- Kazak (Demo)
- Run, Girl, Run (Demo)
- Closer To Heaven (Slow Version)
- The Night is a Time to Explore Who You Are (Demo)
- Motoring (Demo)
- Reunion (Electro Mix)
- Between Two Islands
- Blue on Blue
- London
- In Private
- Home and Dry (Ambient Mix)
- Sexy Northerner
- Time On My Hands
- If Looks Could Kill
- Searching For the Face of Jesus
- Party Song
- You Choose
- Bright Young Things
- Love is a Catastrophe
- Here
- I Get Along
- Miracles
- Transparent
- Birthday Boy
- Try It (I’m In Love With a Married Man)
- Home and Dry
- I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today
- We’re The Pet Shop Boys
- The Night I Fell in Love
From the album
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