Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys
I came (1)____________ a cache of old photos
And (2)______________________ to teenage parties
"Dress in white" one said (3)________ 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 (4)______________ door
She said: "We were (5)__________ feeling bored"
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to (6)________ for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were (7)__________ holding back
Or worried that
Time would come to an end
When I went I (8)________ from the station
With a haversack and some trepidation
Someone said: "If you're not careful
You'll (9)________ (10)______________ left and nothing to care for
In the nineteen-seventies"
But I sat back and looking forward
My shoes were (11)________ and I had spots
I'd bolted through a (12)______________ door
I would never find myself feeling bored
'Cause we were (13)__________ being boring
We had too (14)________ (15)________ to (16)________ for ourselves
And we were (17)__________ 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 (18)____________ that
Looking back you could always 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 that I would get to be
The creature that I always meant to be
But I (19)______________ in spite of dreams
You'd be (20)______________ somewhere here (21)________ me
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to (22)________ for ourselves
And we (23)________ never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were (24)__________ holding back
Or worried that
Time (25)__________ come to an end
We were always hoping that
Looking (26)________ you could always rely on a friend
And we were never (27)__________ boring
We were never being bored
'cause we (28)________ never being boring
We were never being bored
And (2)______________________ to teenage parties
"Dress in white" one said (3)________ 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 (4)______________ door
She said: "We were (5)__________ feeling bored"
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to (6)________ for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were (7)__________ holding back
Or worried that
Time would come to an end
When I went I (8)________ from the station
With a haversack and some trepidation
Someone said: "If you're not careful
You'll (9)________ (10)______________ left and nothing to care for
In the nineteen-seventies"
But I sat back and looking forward
My shoes were (11)________ and I had spots
I'd bolted through a (12)______________ door
I would never find myself feeling bored
'Cause we were (13)__________ being boring
We had too (14)________ (15)________ to (16)________ for ourselves
And we were (17)__________ 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 (18)____________ that
Looking back you could always 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 that I would get to be
The creature that I always meant to be
But I (19)______________ in spite of dreams
You'd be (20)______________ somewhere here (21)________ me
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to (22)________ for ourselves
And we (23)________ never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were (24)__________ holding back
Or worried that
Time (25)__________ come to an end
We were always hoping that
Looking (26)________ you could always rely on a friend
And we were never (27)__________ boring
We were never being bored
'cause we (28)________ never being boring
We were never being bored
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