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?