Day 166 of 366

“King's Cross”

Pet Shop Boys

From the Album ‘Actually’ released September 7, 1987

Written by Pet Shop Boys

 

To listen to the song click the link below

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L_HJoEPuBc

 

This song, one of my favorites from Pet Shop Boys hits many points of my life. Listening to it always hits a nerve or two.

 

This isn't King's Cross Station in London, but I used the dome light at Washington State's Capitol building to go along with the lyric "to feel the smack of firm government" but like I said it hits on many more nerves than this visual. I may have to revisit this song and try to capture all it touches on in a single photo.

 

The man at the back of the queue was sent

to feel the smack of firm government

Lingered by the fly poster for a fight

It's the same story every night

I've been hurt and we've been had

You leave home and you don't go back

 

Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday

Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way

Read it in a book or write it in a letter

Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee

 

Only last night I found myself lost

by the station called King's Cross

Dead and wounded on either side

You know it's only a matter of time

I've been good and I've been bad

I've been guilty of hanging around

 

Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday

Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way

Read it in a book or write it in a letter

Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee

 

So I went looking out today

for the one who got away

Murder walking round the block

ending up in King's Cross

Good luck, bad luck waiting in a line

It takes more than the matter of time

 

Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday

Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way

Read it in a book or write it in a letter

Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee

There is still no guarantee

Done