Being Boring (Extended Mix)

[Verse 1]

I came across a cache of old photos

And invitations to teenage parties

"Dress in white" one said, with quotations

From someone's wife, a famous writer

In the nineteen-twenties

[Pre-Chorus]

When you're young you find inspiration

In anyone who's ever gone

And opened up a closing door

She said, "We were never feeling bored

[Chorus]

'Cause we were never being boring

We had too much time to find for ourselves

And we were never being boring

We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"

And we were never holding back or worried that

Time would come to an end"

[Verse 2]

When I went I left from the station

With a haversack and some trepidation

Someone said, "If you're not careful

You'll have nothing left and nothing to care for

In the nineteen-seventies"

[Pre-Chorus]

But I sat back and looking forward

My shoes were high and I had scored

I'd bolted through a closing door

I would never find myself feeling bored

[Chorus]

'Cause we were never being boring

We had too much time to find for ourselves

And we were never being boring

We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"

And we were never holding back or worried that

Time would come to an end

We were always hoping that, looking back

You could always rely on a friend

(Always rely on a friend)

[Interlude]

[Verse 3]

Now I sit with different faces

In rented rooms and foreign places

All the people I was kissing

Some are here and some are missing

In the nineteen-nineties

[Pre-Chorus]

I never dreamt that I would get to be

The creature that I always meant to be

But I thought in spite of dreams

You'd be sitting somewhere here with me

[Chorus]

'Cause we were never being boring

We had too much time to find for ourselves

And we were never being boring

We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"

And we were never holding back or worried that

Time would come to an end

We were always hoping that, looking back

You could always rely on a friend

[Outro]

And we were never being boring

We had too much time to find for ourselves

And we were never being boring

We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"

And we were never being boring

We were never being bored

'Cause we were never being boring

We were never being bored