news
psb in prague '09
chronology
neil tennant
chris lowe
lyrics
between the lines
discography
tour
love planet festival
on-line shop
pictures / gallery
midi
audio & video
sheet music
chords
collaboration
questions
psb & film
musical
links
newsletter
literally
psb+ visual cd
guestbook
contact
sitemap
Lyrics - Yes
main page < lyrics
Love Etc.
All Over The World
Beautiful People
Did You See Me Coming?
Vulnerable
More Than A Dream
Building A Wall
King Of Rome
Pandemonium
The Way It Used To Be
Legacy
[bonus track - CD 2]
This Used To Be The Future
Love Etc.
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need more
Boy, it's tough getting on in the world
Oh!
You need more
You need more
Too much of anything is never enough
Boy, it's tough getting on in the world
Oh!
You need more
You need more
I believe (you need more, you need more, you need more, you need more)
Oh!
It's something that look in your eyes tonight City life just leaves me weak You may think I'm strong and I can do no wrong but I'm vulnerable Coming soon, something good Protection! Prevention! Detection! Detention! Small man, big world Is this a riot or are you just pleased to see me? I'm here, you're there That's it, the end I can remember when this was the future
I can recall utopian thinking
This used to be the future
But that future was exciting
Was it the dear old future
I can remember planning for leisure
I can remember when this was the future
This used to be the future
Was it the dear old future
This used to be the future
Amen
when the sun doesn't shine
And a boy needs a girl
It's about getting out of a rut
But you're stuck and you don't know how
(Don't have to be)
A big bucks Hollywood star
(Don't have to drive)
A supercar to get far
(Don't have to live)
A life of power and wealth
(Don't have to be)
Beautiful but it helps
(Don't have to buy)
A house in Beverly Hills
(Don't have to have)
Your daddy paying the bills
(Don't have to live)
A life of power and wealth
(Don't have to be)
Beautiful, but it helps
Than a big blank check to be a lover, or
A Gulfstream jet to fly you door to door
Somewhere chic on another shore
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need love
You need love
You need love
Too much of everything is never enough
When the sun doesn't shine
And a boy needs a girl
It's about getting out of a rut
You need luck
But you're stuck and you don't know how
(Don't have to be)
A big bucks Hollywood star
(Don't have to drive)
A supercar to get far
(Don't have to wear)
A smile much colder than ice
(Don't have to be)
Beautiful, but it's nice
Than the Gerhard Richter hangin' on the wall
A chauffeur driven limousine on call
To drive your wife and lover to a white tie ball
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need more
You need love
That we can achieve (you need more, you need more, you need more)
The love that we need (you need more)
I believe (you need more, you need more, you need more, you need more)
Call me naive (you need more, you need more, you need more)
That love is for free (you need more)
(Don't have to be)
A big bucks Hollywood star
(Don't have to drive)
A supercar to get far
(Don't have to live)
A life of power and wealth
(Don't have to be)
Beautiful, but it helps
Beautiful, but it helps
Beautiful, but it helps
All Around The World
Like magic it's changing everything in sight
I hear it all around me every day
In the music that you play
This is a song about boys and girls
You hear it playing all over the world
This is a song about boys and girls
You hear it playing all over the world
The night sky like velvet masks our eyes tonight
And falling, reveals the sun rise and ignite
We feel it all around us every day
In the music that we play
This is a song about boys and girls
You hear it playing all over the world
This is a song about boys and girls
You hear it playing all over the world
This is a song about boys and girls
You hear it playing all over the world
It's sincere and subjective
Superficial and true
Easy and predictable
Exciting and new
To say "I want you"
This is a song about boys and girls
You hear it playing all over the world
This is a song about boys and girls
You hear it playing all over the world
Playing all over the world
Playing all over the world
Beautiful People
All this madness on the street
Need to get away today
Live my life a different way
Is it only fantasy to dream about a perfect me?
I wanna live like beautiful people
Give like beautiful people
With like beautiful people around
I wanna live like beautiful people
Give like beautiful people
With like beautiful people around
Buy the latest magazine
And aspire to the dream
Perfect home and perfect kids
Not a life lived on the skids
Is it only fantasy or could it be reality?
I wanna live like beautiful people
Give like beautiful people
With like beautiful people around
I wanna live like beautiful people
Give like beautiful people
With like beautiful people around
Now I can see myself without a care in the world
It's a sun shining, money-spending, green and healthy world
Is it only fantasy or could it be reality?
I wanna live like beautiful people
Give like beautiful people
With like beautiful people around
I wanna live like beautiful people
Give like beautiful people
With like beautiful people around
Did You See Me Coming?
Did you see me coming?
Was I that obvious?
For all of a sudden
There were just two of us
You don't have be in "Who's Who" to know what's what
You don't have to be a high-flyer to catch your slot
The night we met was cold and wet
I needed a drink or two
I saw you standing there and I knew
I'd love to be loved by you
Did you see me coming?
Was I that obvious?
For all of a sudden
There were just two of us
You don't have to be what's what to know who's who
You don't need the DNA to find the proof
Then and there my life made sense
You were the evidence
Did you see me coming?
Was I that obvious?
For all of a sudden
There were just two of us
Did you see me coming?
I thought I'd have to make
All of the running
I was all yours to take
Am I superstitious or really religious
Just "to thyself be true"
But now I think I'm starting to believe in fate
Because it delivered you
Did you see me coming?
Was I that obvious?
For all of a sudden
There were just two of us
Did you see me coming?
I thought I'd have to make
All of the running
I was all yours to take
Vulnerable
So vulnerable without you
I may be hard to take but you can call me fake 'cause I'm vulnerable
So vulnerable without you
I know the assumption is that I'm tough
With all my anger that's fair enough
Even with friends I have to compete
And try being me when you walk down the street
It's not easy, by the by
Just surviving in the public eye
You may think I'm strong and I can do no wrong but I'm vulnerable
So vulnerable without you
I may be hard to take but you can call me fake 'cause I'm vulnerable
So vulnerable without you
You know I can't ever bear to seem weak
Or have any doubts, that's just my technique
I put in the hours, at least I don't shirk
A little bravado does much of the work
I am no one's stepping stone
But I couldn't live life in private, alone
You may think I'm strong and I can do no wrong but I'm vulnerable
So vulnerable without you
I may be hard to take but you can call me fake 'cause I'm vulnerable
So vulnerable without you
At night I am lying awake
Through the hours, trying to calculate
Am I good enough? Can I contrive
to keep this show on the road? Will I survive?
I know you must sometimes think I don't care
Or even appreciate what we share
Though I'm no one's stepping stone
The truth is I love you and I'd go crazy alone
You may think I'm strong and I can do no wrong but I'm vulnerable
So vulnerable without you
I may be hard to take but you can call me fake 'cause I'm vulnerable
So vulnerable without you
So vulnerable without you
More Than A Dream
Something we can share, understood
Could be better news we can share
Something's coming soon, I hear it everywhere
(Live it) It's the story of our lives
(Give it) It's the way we've always been
(Live it) Though the mountains may divide
(Give it) We can reach the sea
I believe we can change
We can make it more than a dream
And I believe that we can change
It's not as strange as it might seem
In the air I can feel
Something magical becoming real
From the other side, looking in
Come on, throw the dice and tonight we'll win
(Live it) It's the story of our lives
(Give it) It's the way we've always been
(Live it) Though the mountains may divide
(Give it) We can reach the sea
I believe we can change
We can make it more than a dream
And I believe that we can change
It's not as strange as it might seem
I believe we can change
We can make it more than a dream
And I believe that we can change
It's not as strange as it might seem
Driving through the night
Just you and me
Faster than the pale moonlight
Something's calling (calling, calling)
Calling us away
Do you believe
Heaven is a better place?
We'll be there in a heartbeat
I believe we can change
We can make it more than a dream
And I believe that we can change
It's not as strange as it might seem
It's not as strange as it might seem
I believe we can change
We can make it more than a dream
And I believe that we can change
It's not as strange as it might seem
I believe we can change
We can make it more than a dream
And I believe that we can change
It's not as strange as it might seem
Building A Wall
There's nowhere to defect to any more!
Protection! Prevention! Detection! Detention!
There's nowhere to defect to any more!
I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
Back then on a bomb-site we were spies among the ruins
Such precocious barbarians, on TV we saw cold war
Protection! Prevention! Detection! Detention!
There's nowhere to defect to any more!
Protection! Prevention! Detection! Detention!
There's nowhere to defect to any more!
I'm leaving the world, it's all wrong
Not so much what men are doing
Much more what they're not
I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
Jesus and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Caesar conquered Gaul
Scouting for centurions on a Roman wall
Through the woods, the trees
And further on the sea
We lived in the shadow of the war
Sand in the sandwiches
Wasps in the tea
It was a free country
(Who do you think you are, Captain Britain?)
I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
I'm losing my head - well, why not?
More work for the undertaker
Means there's less for me
I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
I'm building a wall, a fine wall
Not so much to keep you out
More to keep me in
King Of Rome
Lost beyond the pale
I know you inside out
I can tell the tale
Across the sky a change of time
Last night I lost all day
I'm here and there or anywhere
Away from Manderley
And if I were the King of Rome
I couldn't be more tragic
My fate to roam so far from home
In search of my lost magic
Oh, baby come back
Oh, baby come back to me
The desert moon, a new lagoon
We glide upon the surface
Night falls fast, no shadows cast
Arriving without purpose
Oh, baby call me
Oh, baby call me today
And if I were the King of Rome
I couldn't be more lonely
With so much scope to dream and hope
Someday you'll deign to phone me
Oh, baby call me
Oh, baby call me today
I long for your inscrutable pale face
I hunger for your beautiful embrace
Pandemonium
Why aren't we holding hands and talking sweet?
I love you really, though I know no ne believes me
There's chaos every time we meet
Oh, now look what, you've gone and done
You're creating pandemonium
That song you sing means everything
To me, I'm living in ecstasy
The stars and the sun dance to your drum
And now it's pandemonium
You're crashing everywhere, it's like you're smashing china
Skidding on an icy road
You're major trouble since you were almost a minor
I sometimes think we'll both explode
Oh, now look what, you've gone and done
You're creating pandemonium
That song you sing means everything
To me, I'm living in ecstasy
My world's gone mad, what did you do?
Telling perfect strangers that I love you
The stars and the sun dance to your drum
And now it's pandemonium
I can't make sense of anything
All I know is the party's in full swing
If we both just stop for a minute
I declare war and then you'd win it
To tell you the truth, I thought I was shockproof
Until I saw what you get up to
When you think about it, it's quite an achievement
That after all I still love you
Oh, now look what, you've gone and done
You're creating pandemonium
That song you sing means everything
To me, I'm living in ecstasy
My world's gone mad, what did you do?
Telling perfect strangers that I love you
The stars and the sun dance to your drum
And now it's pandemonium
The Way It Used To Be
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
Legacy
But you'll get over it, my friend
Time will pass, governments fall
Glaciers melt, hurricanes bawl
High-speed trains take us away
North or south and back the same day
And you, you'll get over it
You do, you get over it
Seasons will change, more or less
Species vanish, art perplex
Resentment remain both east and west
Police expect an arrest
For now, you'll get over it
Somehow, you'll get over it
You'll be there, the king over the water
In despair, recoiling from the slaughter
They're raising an army in the North
From York Minster to the Firth of Forth
A pilgrimage of grace, you won't believe it
Such a human face when you receive it
And you will get over it
With time to kill, you'll get over it
There's a cruiser waiting at Scapa Flow
To take you away from all you know
The old man agonised
He really has compromised
Public opinion may not be on your side
There are those who think they've been taken for a ride
You'll get over it, I'm on your side because
You'll get over it, and what a ride it was!
Tout les artistes dans le monde
Chantent pour toi ce soir
Tout les artistes dans le monde
Chantent pour toi c'est noir
It's dark, but you'll get over it
On your mark, you'll get over it
That Carphone Warehouse boy has been on the phone
He wants to upgrade the mobile you own
Have you realised your computer's a spy?
Give him a ring, he'll explain why
The bourgeoisie will get over it
Look at me, I'm so over it
And you, you'll get over it!
You do, you get over it in time
This Used To Be The Future
Where it was gonna be at back then
Why don't we tear the whole bloody lot down
And make a new start all over again?
Bold mission statements and tightening of belts
Demolition of familiar landmarks
Promises made and deals that were dealt
Where it was at back then
Let's tear the whole bloody lot down
And start all over again
Science fiction made fact
Now all we have to look forward to
Is a sort of suicide pact
That created the problems we face?
How do we deal with the fallout
Of the age we used to call space?
Living in peace and freedom from fear
Science that promised to make us a new world
Religion and prejudice disappear
Where it was gonna be at back then
Now religion and nuclear energy have united
To threaten, oh God! Amen
Where it was at back then
Now religion and nuclear energy have united
Oh God! Amen
That created the problems we face?
How do we deal with the fallout
Of the age we used to call space?
Where it was at back then
Let's tear the whole bloody lot down
And start all over again