Being it a result of mistake, or conscious decision, some performances of the song (i.e. 1997’s Moscow or 1999’s Atlanta concerts) have had the words in “When I went, I left from the station” switched to “When I left, I went from the station”. They’ve also been several accidents of “And we were never being boring” changed to “‘Cause we were never being boring” (2000’s Equality Rocks concert).
As soon as in 1994’s Discovery tour, Neil started to sing the third verse in a different way:
Now I sit with different faces
in rented rooms and foreign places.
All the people I was kissing,
some are here but some are missing
in the 1990s.
...as if he wanted to emphasize that the loss of the ones loved is harder to come to terms with that he originally thought.
Being boring 1999’s performance at Creamfields Festival in UK changed the last chorus to “we were never, we were never, we were never feeling bored” accompanied by Sylvia Mason-James’ ad-libbed “no, no, no, no, no.”
And starting with the first day of year 2000, we no longer live “in the 1990s.” Therefore, to reflect the change of decades, first Spanish concert on 16th January and all subsequent live performances of Being boring have had third verse lyrics once again slightly updated:
Now I sit with different faces
in rented rooms and foreign places.
All the people I was kissing,
some are here but some were missing
by the 1990s.
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