Lyrics The Lost Room – Pet Shop Boys
Sent away to school
We would talk too much in sheets
And take our discipline in teams
They trained us to be hard
For cruelty of man who’d ask
And none of us it seems
And we knew camaraderie
In the lost room I hide away
We would play the strangers games
That any boy might like to play
In the lost room both night and day
Candles flickered casting shadows
On the monsters and their prey
Mother, I wrote to you
But your answers only said
That it’s important to be brave
Father was far away
In a corner of the empire
Where we never shall be slaves
For we know camaraderie
In the lost room a boy could see
How survival of the fittest
Make destruction of the weak
In the lost room a tyranny
Was imposed by those who quote
They’d never turn the other cheek
Crash and then again
But the servants cleaning dormitories
Can’t hear what we say
Crack it’s only pain
And important to be disciplined
When war is on the way
They say
We will obey
In the lost room I hide away
We would play the strangers games
That any boy might like to play
In the lost room both night and day
Candles flickered casting shadows
On the monsters and their prey
In the lost room a boy could see
How survival of the fittest
Make destruction of the weak
In the future this time will tell
Running riot under orders
Would create a living hell
Lost
Mother, I’m lost
Lost
Mother, I’m lost…
