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PET SHOP BOYS | The Way It Used To Be | |
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I'm here, you're there Come closer, tonight I'm lonely Come here with me I want it the way it used to be What is left of love? Tell me, who would even care? So much time has passed I'd still meet you anywhere Water under bridge Evening after day What is left of love Here that didn't drift away? I can remember days of sun We knew our lives had just begun We could do anything We're fearless when we're young Under the moon, address unknown I can remember nights in Rome I thought that love would last A promise set in stone I'd survive with only memories If I could change the way I feel But I want more than only memories A human touch to make them real Another day, another dream Over the bridge an empty scene We'd spend the weekend lost in bed And float upstream I don't know why we moved away Lost in the here and now we strayed Into a New York zone Our promise was betrayed I was there, caught on Tenth Avenue You elsewhere with Culver City blues Then and there I knew that I'd lost you What is left of love? Tell me, who will even care? So much time has passed I'd still meet you anywhere Water under bridge Evening after day What is left of love Here that didn't drift away? Don't give me all your northern pain Don't sell me New York in the rain Let's leave our promises behind Rewind and try again What remains in time that didn't fade away? Sometimes I need to see The way it used to be |
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The song is also Neil Tennant's personal favourite. He said: "It is almost like a film the way it's structured - a man and a woman meet after many years and then we have a flashback to when they first lived together and it goes through their whole relationship and then suddenly they meet again."
REVIEWS
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''The Way It Used to Be'' is actually one of the stronger songs on the set, and it's bristling with feeling. There's a faint rumble of electric guitars in the background, and dramatic tempo shifts and backing chorus, with electronic flourishes like the Boys of yore. Metro Weekly
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A bleak 'n' pulsating ballad-that's-not whose lyrics start with a simple "I'm here, you're there - come closer, tonight I'm lonely" then go on to pick apart an empty relationship. Structurally but not sonically it's a bit of a 'Biology' - it relentlessly drives through a series of different segments, doesn't have a chorus and builds to an incredible climax but does this in a really unselfconscious way. It's hypnotic, atmospheric, almost danceable but also very very sad. Popjustice
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Built on a fluttering synth hook, over which Chris Lowe piles his trademark orchestral flourishes and electro squiggles, this last song joins Love Etc as the most perfect fusion of Xenomania and Pet Shop Boys sensibilities here. BBC Music
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Wherein the Pet Shop Boys take the two LCD Soundsystem albums and smash them ENTIRELY into one glorious, soaring epic that they then go and sprinkle with a captivatingly irresponsible amount of Abba during their nordic nihilist meltdown years. You don't need to know any more than that, surely? The Quietus
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