The Last to Die

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“The Last to Die” is the sixth track on the Pet Shop Boys’s twelfth album Electric. The anthemic synthpop ballad is a cover version of the Bruce Springsteen song found on… Read More

Jul. 12, 20131 viewer

The Last to Die Lyrics

[Verse 1]
We took the highway 'til the road went black
We'd marked Truth or Consequences on our map
A voice drifted up from the radio
Some other voice from long ago

[Chorus]
Who'll be the last to die for a mistake?
The last to die for a mistake?
Whose blood will spill?
Whose heart will break?
Who'll be the last to die for a mistake?

[Verse 2]
The kids asleep in the back seat
We're just counting the miles, you and me
We don't measure the blood we've drawn anymore
We just stack the bodies outside the door

[Chorus]
Who'll be the last to die for our mistakes?
The last to die for our mistakes?
Whose blood will spill?
Whose heart will break?
Who'll be the last to die for our mistakes?

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[Non-Lyrical Post-Chorus]

[Bridge]
The sun it sets in flames as the city burns
Another day gone down as the evening turns
And I hold you here in my heart
As things fall apart

[Verse 3]
A downtown window flushed with light
And faces of the dead at five
I see her martyr's silent eyes
Petition the drivers as we pass by

[Chorus]
Who'll be the last to die for our mistakes?
The last to die for our mistakes?
Whose blood will spill?
Whose heart will break?
Who'll be the last to die?

[Chorus]
Who'll be the last to die for our mistakes?
The last to die for our mistakes?
Tyrants and kings both meet the same fate
Strung up at your city gate
Who'll be the last to die for our mistakes?

[Non-Lyrical Post-Chorus]

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About

“The Last to Die” is the sixth track on the Pet Shop Boys’s twelfth album Electric. The anthemic synthpop ballad is a cover version of the Bruce Springsteen song found on his 2007 album Magic.

The song was brought to the attention of Pet Shop Boy Chris Lowe by his sister. Recalls fellow Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant:

This came about doing a Bruce Springsteen song, because Chris’s sister told Chris she’d discovered a really good Springsteen song and she thought he would like it. So we played it in the studio and immediately started doing a version of it. And what we really liked about it was the fact that there was a guitar riff, which we thought would make a good synth riff, and then we ended up making it a vocal riff.