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