Pet Shop Boys - The Lost Room Lyrics

 Pet Shop Boys - The Lost Room Lyrics

Sent away to school

we were taught to march and shoot

and take our discipline in teams

They trained us to be hard

or cruelty and manhood 

are synonymous it seems

and we

knew camaraderie

In the lost room

our hideaway

we would play the strangest 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 

meant destruction of the weak 

In the lost room

a tyranny

was imposed by those who crowed

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

our hideaway

we would play the strangest 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 

meant destruction of the weak 

In the future

as time would tell

running riot under orders

would create a living hell

Lost, mother, I’m lost

Lost, mother, I’m lost