Being Boring

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 the 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 or 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 the 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 the 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 or 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 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 being boring,
we were never being bored.
'Cause we were never being boring,
we were never being bored.



Di con un taco de viejas fotos
e invitaciones a fiestas de adolescentes.
"Vístete de blanco", decía una, con citas
de la esposa de alguien, un escritor famoso
en los años veinte.
Cuando eres joven encuentras inspiración
en cualquiera que alguna vez haya llegado
a abrir una puerta que se cerraba.
Ella decía que nunca estaríamos aburridos

porque nunca seríamos aburridos.
Teníamos demasiado tiempo para descubrirnos
y nunca nos sentíamos aburridos:
nos disfrazábamos y luchábamos y pensábamos: "Hagámos las paces".
Y nunca nos conteníamos o nos preocupaba
que el tiempo pudiese acabarse.

Cuando me fui dejé la estación
con una mochila y cierta inquietud
alguien dijo: "Si no tienes cuidado
no te quedará nada que abandonar ni de qué preocuparte"
Eran los setenta.
Pero me recosté y miré hacia adelante,
mis zapatos estaban en alto y lo había logrado.
Había escapado a una puerta que se cerraba,
nunca más me sentiría aburrido

porque nunca seríamos aburridos.
Teníamos demasiado tiempo para descubrirnos
y nunca nos sentíamos aburridos:
nos disfrazábamos y luchábamos y pensábamos: "Hagámos las paces".
Y nunca nos conteníamos o nos preocupaba
que el tiempo pudiese acabarse.
Siempre confiábamos en que, al mirar atrás,
podríamos contar con un amigo.

Ahora me establezco con diferentes rostros
en habitaciones alquiladas y lugares del extranjero.
De la gente a la que besaba
algunos quedan y otros se han perdido.
En los noventa.
Nunca imaginé que me convertiría en
la criatura que afirmaba ser.
Pero pensaba que a pesar de los sueños
estarías sentado aquí, en algún lugar, conmigo

porque nunca seríamos aburridos.
Teníamos demasiado tiempo para descubrirnos
y nunca nos sentíamos aburridos:
nos disfrazábamos y luchábamos y pensábamos: "Hagámos las paces".
Y nunca nos conteníamos o nos preocupaba
que el tiempo pudiese acabarse.
Siempre confiábamos en que, al mirar atrás,
podríamos contar con un amigo.

Y nunca seríamos aburridos,
teníamos demasiado tiempo para descubrirnos.
Y nunca seríamos aburridos,
nos disfrazábamos y luchábamos y pensábamos: "Hagámos las paces".
Y nunca seríamos aburridos,
nunca nos sentiríamos aburridos.
Porque nunca seríamos aburridos,
nunca nos sentiríamos aburridos.

Nota: La cita a la que la canción hace referencia es de Zelda Fitzgerald:
"She refused to be bored, chiefly because she wasn't boring."
"Ella se negaba a aburrirse, principalmente porque no era aburrida."

Pet Shop Boys.

Ciudadanos de Pompeya

Fotografía tomada por Tyler Bell.

Variación Goldberg BWV 988 nº25

Johann Sebastian Bach. Interpreta Glenn Gould.