A song that made me cry the first time I heard it.

Pet Shop Boys: Being Boring (Inspired by Gryphon's Hole)
 
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.

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Time and The Nick of Time
3 out of 5 Stars

The stars aligned for Bonnie Raitt and her tenth album. A new record company (Capitol) that was hot to break her after a couple decades of cult status, a hot producer (Don Was) and a batch of songs tailored to her rough but tender pop-blues style. Combined with a couple great videos (especially Dennis Quaid in "Thing Called Love"), things just seemed right. Suddenly, "Nick Of Time" started selling in tonnage and Bonnie Raitt jumped from critical darling to stadium act. Add that the self-penned title song captured a worried baby-boomers' aging zeitgeist, and the album suddenly became Grammy bait. (See also Genius Loves Company and Raising Sand.) After all, the academy loves a good comeback story if the music is as firmly middle of the road as "Nick of Time."

Was helped in that department by smoothing everything up to a fine polish. If you compare Raiit's gently rolling "Thing Called Love" to John Hiatt's spiky original, you'd see what I mean. Fellow cult singer Bonnie Hayes got a sudden rush of exposure by having two songs included, the sweet "Have A Heart" (plucked as the theme to a Bob Hoskins movie) and the surly "Love Letters." Jerry Williams' "Real Man" also highlights Raitt's smooth, honest style. The original first half of the album remains a flawless set. It sent Raitt home from the 1989 Grammys with a pack of awards, including album of the year. It also set up the successful pattern for following albums, including the delight of Luck of the Draw.