Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
An absolutely beautiful track from the YES album, at the same time upbeat musically and melancholy lyrically... the story of someone looking back wistfully on a former love. Neil Tennant has described the underlying premise of this song as one in which a couple, years after breaking up, meet again quite by chance. This sends the narrator into a bittersweet reminiscence of their relationship—its youthful days of romance and its gradual collapse. It turns out that, after all this time, he longs for "the way it used to be."
Writers: Brian Higgins, Chris Lowe, Miranda Cooper, Neil Tennant, Nick Coler
Mixed by: Jeremy Wheatley
℗© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd. under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Ltd. A Warner Music Group Company. All rights reserved.
Original copyrights ℗© 2009 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive license to EMI Records Ltd.
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Besides, I’m just a fan making ZERO money off these videos. I have refused to monetize my channel, because as a fan I refuse to make money off artists I respect and admire. I simply make these videos to share songs that I truly love, especially remixes, B-sides, and album tracks that have no official videos. YouTube has even blocked me from monetizing and instead THEY make money off me by putting ads in the videos.
An absolutely beautiful track from the YES album, at the same time upbeat musically and melancholy lyrically... the story of someone looking back wistfully on a former love. Neil Tennant has described the underlying premise of this song as one in which a couple, years after breaking up, meet again quite by chance. This sends the narrator into a bittersweet reminiscence of their relationship—its youthful days of romance and its gradual collapse. It turns out that, after all this time, he longs for "the way it used to be."
Writers: Brian Higgins, Chris Lowe, Miranda Cooper, Neil Tennant, Nick Coler
Mixed by: Jeremy Wheatley
℗© 2017 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd. under exclusive license to Parlophone Records Ltd. A Warner Music Group Company. All rights reserved.
Original copyrights ℗© 2009 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive license to EMI Records Ltd.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This channel contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. The owner of this channel gains no profit from the broadcast of these materials. I believe that the use of such material for nonprofit educational purposes (and other related purposes) constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in the US Copyright Law at Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107. Under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.
Besides, I’m just a fan making ZERO money off these videos. I have refused to monetize my channel, because as a fan I refuse to make money off artists I respect and admire. I simply make these videos to share songs that I truly love, especially remixes, B-sides, and album tracks that have no official videos. YouTube has even blocked me from monetizing and instead THEY make money off me by putting ads in the videos.
