Living in the past

Living in the past - Pet Shop Boys

Composed by：Neil Tennant/Chris Lowe

I arrive in the city

Where they've unveiled a bust of my predecessor

Still much discussed

We tried to forget him his crimes were catalogued

But in the new circumstances

Once again he's a God

The past isn't even past

That's how long it lasts

I want them to fear me

Like everyone feared him

Arrested and shot but still they revered him

Like him I'll win

I won't be eclipsed

I want men to die with my name on their lips

The past isn't even past

That's how long it lasts

The past isn't even past

That's how long it lasts

I'm the living embodiment

Of a heart of stone

A human monument to testosterone

Though inside I'm dead

It's too late to lose

I'm all they ever talk about

On their news cycle of abuse

I'm there on your borders

Not gonna quit

To new world orders I will never submit

Call me a warmonger and I'll give you a war

Say I'm a cheat and I'll still fake the score

There's no defeat that I'll answer for

The West is effete and they're begging for more

I'll get it all back the old status quo

I remember how it was

And I won't let it go

That's how long it lasts

The past isn't even past

That's how long it lasts