Goodbye Lennon-Vanilla Swingers

It's thirty years since '85 Robbie's dead but Pete's alive Or so the weblogs say But no-one's reading them Today my past caught up with me And you were standing over there You asked me what's the time You asked me what's the year and smiled the saddest smile I've ever seen I heard the same, can it be true The bad die old, the good pass through Or so the people say But look where they got us The cars lie all around The city's useless now We took on the world and lost But everyone's a loser now, but you I never thought you'd end up here With all that you were running from But when the chips are down I only wish I'd been around As if you needed me at all I couldn't stay, just had to go I waited years for you to show But that's all in the past It happened oh so fast The cars lie all around The city's useless now We took on the world and lost But everyone's a loser now, but you Thinking what I should have done There are things you shouldn't touch And so much you can't control I didn't find myself back there But I lost myself in you And it felt so, so, so It doesn't have to end this way 'Cause you can always start again It's just a possible world The cars lie all around The city's useless now We took on the world and lost But everyone's a loser now, but you You saw it coming, didn't you?