This Used To Be The Future-Pet Shop Boys/Philip Oakey

[00:00.421]This Used To Be the Future （2017Remastered Version）-Pet Shop Boys/Phil Oakey [00:03.125]Written by ：Chris Lowe/Neil Tennant [01:31.839]I can remember when this was the future [01:35.575]Where it was gonna be at back then [01:38.983]Why don't we tear the whole bloody lot down [01:42.887]And make a new start all over again [01:47.79]I can recall utopian thinking [01:50.678]Bold mission statements and tightening of belts [01:54.430]Demolition of familiar landmarks [01:58.526]Promises made and deals that were dealt [02:01.869]This used to be the future [02:09.868]Where it was at back then [02:16.962]Let's tear the whole bloody lot down [02:24.458]And start all over again [02:34.234]But that future was exciting [02:37.866]Science fiction made fact [02:41.954]Now all we have to look forward to [02:45.522]Is a sort of suicide pact [02:48.938]Was it the dear old future [02:52.306]That created the problems we face [02:56.398]How do we deal with the fallout [02:59.862]Of the age we used to call space [03:10.854]I can remember planning for leisure [03:14.550]Living in peace and freedom from fear [03:18.318]Science that promised to make us a new world [03:22.22]Religion and prejudice disappear [03:25.885]I can remember when this was the future [03:29.709]Where it was gonna be at back then [03:33.69]Now religion and nuclear energy have united [03:38.113]To threaten oh god amen [03:43.111]This used to be the future [03:46.846]Where it was at back then [03:50.334]Now religion and nuclear energy have united [03:55.292]Oh god amen [03:57.548]Was it the dear old future [04:00.836]That created the problems we face [04:04.804]How do we deal with the fallout [04:08.444]Of the age we used to call space [04:38.99]This used to be the future [04:46.56]Where it was at back then [04:53.56]Let's tear the whole bloody lot down [05:00.656]And start all over again [05:08.536]Amen