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Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys

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

When I (10)________ I left from the station
With a haversack and (11)________ 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 looking forward
My shoes were high and I had spots
I'd bolted through a closing door
I would never find (12)____________ feeling bored
'Cause we (13)________ never (14)__________ boring
We had too (15)________ time to (16)________ for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were never holding back
Or worried that
Time would (17)________ to an end
We were always hoping that
Looking back you could (18)____________ rely on a friend

Now I sit with different faces
In rented rooms and foreign places
All the (19)____________ I was kissing
Some are here and some are missing
In the nineteen-nineties
I never (20)____________ that I would get to be
The creature that I always 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 (21)________ for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we (22)________ never holding back
Or worried that
Time (23)__________ come to an end
We were always hoping that
Looking (24)________ you could always rely on a friend
And we (25)________ never being boring
We were never being bored
'cause we (26)________ never being boring
We were never being bored

Answers:
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