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Lyrics

Positive role model (Closer to Heaven version)

Here I stand
where I planned
Given one more chance
Take it then
start again
Time to join the dance
All I've seen
and all I've been
led me here today
Forget the lies
the tears I've cried
I'm doing it a different way

I want a positive role model
I want a positive role model

Reinvention
my intention
How to make the change?
We're children then
boys to men
It doesn't feel so strange
A broken heart
for a start
A new identity
Feel the love
up above
watching over me

I want a positive role model
I want a positive role model

My reflection on the street
Is that the way I walk?
Introspection as I speak
I need to change the way I talk
In a changing world
there's so much you could be
Why can't you choose your self
like your enemy?
Have you ever imagined
a new you?
I could be someone else
The question is: who?

I want a positive role model
I want a positive role model
I want a positive role model
I want a positive role model

Give me hope
Give me all your love
Give me hope

Video

On this day

1988: After the Boys help pay for an anti-Clause 28 newspaper ad, a spokesman tells the Daily Mirror that 'they support a variety of causes.'

2000: The Boys perform in Berlin.

2005: Neil finishes recording vocals for 'Fugitive.'

2007: The Pet Shop Boys had been nominated for two Grammy Awards—Best Dance/Electronic Album and Best Dance Single—but lose out to Madonna and Justin Timberlake, respectively.

2008: Chris appears as a witness at St. Pancras Coroner's Court in London during the inquest into the death of PSB friend and assistant Dainton Connell in a automobile accident the previous October in Moscow. He testifies how he'd seen Dainton only shortly before the accident at a dinner celebrating his (Chris's) birthday.

2009: Despite the fact that he's suffering from a nasty bout of either food poisoning or stomach flu, Neil is interviewed via telephone for a radio show on various subjects, including the upcoming new album Yes, the Brits Awards, and submitting a song shortly before Christmas to Shirley Bassey, who's in the process of recording a new album of her own.

Photographs

Facts courtesy of geowayne.com