The way it used to be - Pet Shop Boys, Richard x

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 love and 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