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'd 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 
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...
It doesn't have to end this way
Cos 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