This must be the place I waited years to leave

"This must be the place I waited years to leave" is a song by Pet Shop Boys and covered by The Gliding Faces for their album, On the nose.

Lyrics

Each morning after Sunblest
 Feel the benefit, mental arithmetic
 I waited by the staffroom
 in time for benediction
 
 Living a law just short of delusion
 When we fall in love there's confusion
 This must be the place I waited years to leave
 
 To our voices nobody's listening
 We shiver in the rain by a touchline
 Then a coach ride to the station
 "My lord, the carriage awaiteth!"
 
 Living a law just short of delusion
 When we fall in love there's confusion
 This must be the place I waited years to leave
 This must be the place I waited years to leave
 And how? How long?
 
 I'm listening to the words I thought I'd never hear again
 A litany of saints and other ordinary men
 Kneeling on the parquet
 Whatever has gone wrong
 The fear and feeling hopelessness
 I don't want to belong
 
 I dreamt I was back in uniform
 and a candidate for examination
 History, someone had blundered
 and a voice rapped "knuckle under!"
 
 Living a law just short of delusion
 When we fall in love there's confusion
 This must be the place I waited years to leave
 This must be the place I waited years to leave
 And how? How long?
 And how? How long?

Versions

• Appears on On the nose.

Personnel

• Produced and performed by Max Herring and Daniel Bailey-Graham
• Written by Neil Tennant/Chris Lowe