Words & music by stephen duffy & steven page
Learn to loseit’s easier that way
We’ve paid our duesbut we can’t make life pay
All across the worldpeople going mad
In their mother’s carsthe kids are feeling sad
That’s how it isand I’ll see you later
Everything old is new again
Everything under the sun
Now that I’m back with you again
We hug and we kiss
We sit and make lists
We drink and I bandage your wrists
Wasted youth — there wasn’t much to waste
Down to the boneand still losing weight
With all the wishing in the world glistening in her eyes
But when I say I love hershe thinks I’m telling lies
Is it all lost? nowe never had it
Everything old is new again
Everything under the sun
All of our fears come true again
Recycle reuse
Resent and refuse
Our parent’s ideals and view
She thinks the afterlife might just be where the action is
With high schools built like prisonsshe can’t find a way to live
Moved back home to fill the empty nest
Afraid to roamin love with second best
While somewhere in the worldshe’s hosting her own show
And everyone she questions never seems to know
Who they are and where they are going
Everything old is new again
Everything under the sun
Now that I’m without you again
I wake up and eat
I go back to sleep
And let my nightmares repeat
All across the worldpeople going mad