I came across a cache of old photos   And invitations to teenage parties   "Dress in white" one said with quotations   From someone's wife, a famous writer   In my nineteen-twenties   When you're young you find inspiration in   Anyone who's ever gone   And opened up a closing door   She said, "We were never feeling bored"      'Cause we were never being boring   We had too much time to find for ourselves   And we were never being boring   We dressed up and fought, then thought, make amends   And we were never holding back, worried that   Time would come to an end      When I went I left from the station   With a haversack and some trepidation   Someone said, "If you're not careful   You'll have nothing left and nothing to care for"   In my nineteen-seventies   But I sat back and looking forward   My shoes were high and I had scored   I'd bolted through a closing door   I would never find myself feeling bored      'Cause we were never being boring   We had too much time to find for ourselves   And we were never being boring   We dressed up and fought, then thought, make amends   And we were never holding back or worried that   Time would come to an end   We were always hoping that, looking back   You could always rely on a friend      Now I sit with different faces   In rented rooms and foreign places   All the people I was kissing   Some are here and some are missing   In my nineteen-nineties   I never dreamt that I would get to be   The creature that I always meant to be   But I thought in spite of dreams   You'd be sitting somewhere here with me      'Cause we were never being boring   We had too much time to find for ourselves   And we were never being boring   We dressed up and fought, then thought, make amends   And we were never holding back, worried that   Time would come to an end   We were always hoping that, looking back   You could always rely on a friend      And we were never being boring   We were never being bored   'Cause we were never being boring   We were never being bored