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Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys

I came (1)____________ a cache of old photos
And (2)______________________ to teenage parties
"Dress in white" one (3)________ with quotations
From someone's wife, a famous writer
In the nineteen-twenties
When you're young you find inspiration
In anyone who's ever gone
And opened up a closing door
She said: "We were (4)__________ feeling bored"
'Cause we (5)________ never being boring
We had too (6)________ time to find for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we (7)________ never holding back
Or (8)______________ that
Time would come to an end

When I (9)________ I left from the station
With a haversack and some trepidation
Someone said: "If you're not careful
You'll have nothing left and nothing to care for
In the nineteen-seventies"
But I sat back and (10)______________ forward
My shoes were high and I had spots
I'd (11)____________ through a closing door
I would (12)__________ (13)________ (14)____________ (15)______________ bored
'Cause we (16)________ never being boring
We had too much (17)________ to find for ourselves
And we (18)________ never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were never (19)______________ back
Or worried that
Time would come to an end
We were always hoping that
Looking back you could always rely on a friend

Now I sit (20)________ different faces
In rented rooms and foreign places
All the people I was kissing
Some are (21)________ and (22)________ are missing
In the nineteen-nineties
I never dreamt that I would get to be
The (23)________________ (24)________ I (25)____________ meant to be
But I thought in spite of dreams
You'd be sitting somewhere here with me
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We (26)______________ up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were never holding back
Or worried that
Time would come to an end
We were always hoping that
Looking back you could always rely on a friend
And we were never (27)__________ boring
We were (28)__________ being bored
'cause we were never being boring
We were (29)__________ being bored

Answers:
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