Title: The Way It Used to Be
Artist: Pet Shop Boys
Composers: Nick Coler; Miranda Cooper; Brian Higgins; Chris Lowe; Neil Tennant
Album: Yes
Year: 2009
[Intro]
F#m Bm E C#7sus4 F#m
[Verse 1]
F#m
I'm here
Bm
You're there
E
Come closer
C#7sus4 F#m
Tonight I'm lonely
F#m
Come here
Bm
With me
E
I want it
C#7sus4 F#m
The way it used to be
[Chorus]
F#m
What is left of love?
Bm
Tell me who would even care?
E
So much time has passed
C#7sus4 F#m
I'd still meet you anywhere
F#m
Water under bridge
Bm
Evening after day
E
What is left of love here
C#7sus4 F#m
That didn't drift away?
[Verse 2]
F#m Bm
I can remember days of sun
E
We knew our lives had just begun
We could do anything
C#7sus4 F#m
We're fearless when we're young
F#m Bm
Under the moon, address unknown
E
I can remember nights in Rome
I thought that love would last
C#7sus4 F#m
A promise set in stone
[Bridge]
Bm E A F#m
I'd survive with only memories
Bm E A F#m
If I could change the way I feel
Bm E A F#m
But I want more than only memories
Bm E A
A human touch to make them real
[Verse 3]
F#m Bm
Another day, another dream
E
Over the bridge an empty scene
C#7sus4
We'd spend the weekend lost in bed
F#m
And float upstream
F#m Bm
I don't know why we moved away
E
Lost in the here and now we strayed
Into a New York zone
C#7sus4 F#m
Our promise was betrayed
[Pre-instrumental]
F#m Bm
I was there caught on Tenth Avenue
E
You elsewhere with Culver City blues
C#7sus4 F#m
Then and there I knew that I'd lost you
[Instrumental]
F#m Bm E C#7sus4 F#m [twice]
[Chorus]
F#m
What is left of love?
Bm
Tell me who will even care?
E
So much time has passed
C#7sus4 F#m
I'd still meet you anywhere
F#m
Water under bridge
Bm
Evening after day
E
What is left of love here
C#7sus4 F#m
That didn't drift away?
[Pre-coda]
F#m
Don't give me all your northern pain
Bm
Don't sell me New York in the rain
E
Let's leave our promises behind
C#7sus4 F#m
Rewind and try again
[Coda]
F#m
What remains in time
Bm
That didn't fade away?
E
Sometimes I need to see
C#7sus4 F#m
The way it used to be