This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave - Pet Shop Boys 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 the 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 And how How long