[MUSIC] Pet Shop Boys, "It's Alright"
In writing my new Thursday [MUSIC] posts, I find myself revisiting songs I'd touch on before. The Pet Shop Boys' 1988 single "It's Alright" is one I had written about back in January 2009.
What is necessarily wrong with that? Songs can remain the same, but interpretations can change. There are some undeniable core continuities between me now and me in 2009, say, but I don't think about things in quite the same way.
Generations will come and go
but there’s one thing for sure
Music is our life’s foundation
and shall succeed all the nations to come
I hope it’s gonna be alright
'cause the music plays forever
(For it goes on and on and on and on…)
I hope it’s gonna be alright
(On and on and on…)
‘Cause the music plays forever
(For it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on)
A song that expresses hope for the future, and expresses it in the hope of music’s eternal power in the face of all the ills of the world, is always worth listening to again.
What is necessarily wrong with that? Songs can remain the same, but interpretations can change. There are some undeniable core continuities between me now and me in 2009, say, but I don't think about things in quite the same way.
Click to viewGenerations will come and go
but there’s one thing for sure
Music is our life’s foundation
and shall succeed all the nations to come
I hope it’s gonna be alright
'cause the music plays forever
(For it goes on and on and on and on…)
I hope it’s gonna be alright
(On and on and on…)
‘Cause the music plays forever
(For it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on)
A song that expresses hope for the future, and expresses it in the hope of music’s eternal power in the face of all the ills of the world, is always worth listening to again.