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Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys

I came across a (1)__________ of old photos
And invitations to teenage parties
"Dress in white" one (2)________ (3)________ quotations
From someone's wife, a famous writer
In the nineteen-twenties
When you're (4)__________ you find inspiration
In (5)____________ who's ever gone
And (6)____________ up a closing door
She said: "We were never feeling bored"
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
And we were never (7)__________ boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were never holding back
Or (8)______________ that
Time (9)__________ come to an end

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

Now I sit with different faces
In rented rooms and foreign places
All the people I was kissing
Some are here and some are missing
In the nineteen-nineties
I never dreamt (17)________ I (18)__________ get to be
The creature that I always meant to be
But I (19)______________ in spite of dreams
You'd be (20)______________ somewhere (21)________ (22)________ me
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to (23)________ for ourselves
And we were (24)__________ being boring
We dressed 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 (25)__________ being boring
We were never being bored
'cause we were never being boring
We were (26)__________ (27)__________ bored

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