Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe), British musicians.

All the people I was kissing,

Some are here and some are missing,

In the nineteen-nineties....

But I thought in spite of dreams

You'd be sitting somewhere here with me.

"Being boring"

Consider for a minute who you are

What you'd like to change, never mind the scars

Bury the past, empty the shelf

Decide it's time to reinvent yourself

"DJ Culture"

She's made you some kind of laughing stock

Because you dance to disco and you don't like rock

She made fun of you and even in bed

Said she was going to go and get herself a real man instead

"Can you forgive her?"

Remember when you were more easily led

Behind the cricket pavillion and the bicycle shed

Trembling as your dreams came true

You looked up into those blue eyes and knew

It was love, and now you can't pretend

You've forgotten all the promises of that first friend...

"Can you forgive her?"

Give me hope, give me all your love

Tell me now you're coming home tonight

Have some faith in the love we share

Is it fate? Does darkness end in light?

Never been closer to heaven – never been further away...

"Closer to heaven"

Dreaming of the Queen

Visiting for tea

You and her and I

and Lady Di

The Queen said, I'm aghast

Love never seems to last

However hard you try

And Di replied

That there are no more lovers left alive...

"Dreaming of the Queen"

There where the air is free

we'll be what we want to be

Now if we make a stand

we'll find our promised land

"Go West"

You've got a home here

Call it what you want

You've got a home here

You're gonna want it when you can't

face the world and you need

some support to succeed

You've got a home

"Here"

So my baby's on the road, doing business, selling loads,

Charming everyone there with the sweetest smile...

Oh tonight I miss you, oh tonight I wish you

Would be here with me, but I won't see you

Till you've made it back again home and dry...

"Home and dry"

I feel like taking all my clothes off and dancing to The Rite of Spring.

"I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing"

What have you got to hide? Who will it compromise?

Where do we have to be so I can laugh and you'll be free?

I'll go anywhere, baby; I don't care

I'm not scared...

"I'm not scared"

Before we ever met I thought like everybody did

You were just a moron, a billion-dollar kid

You flew up all the way like a hawk chasing a dove

I never thought that I would be a sacrifice in love

"I'm with Stupid" (acknowledged to be about the relationship between Tony Blair and George W. Bush)

That Zazou, he don't care

Dark glasses, long hair...

Sips his drinks, orders more,

Says what he thinks, and it's a crazy war.

"In the night"

When I look back upon my life

It's always with a sense of shame

I've always been the one to blame

For everything I long to do

No matter where or when or who

Has one thing in common too;

It's a - it's a- it's a - it's a sin!

"It's a sin"

In the back of my head

I heard distant feet;

Che Guevara and Debussy

To a disco beat.

"Left to my own devices"

To free in me the trust I never dared

I always thought the risk too great

But suddenly, I don't hesitate

So take my hand, don't think of complications

Now, right now, your love is liberation

"Liberation"

My father fought in Afghanistan

His widows pension aint worth a damn

My mother works and goes home to cry

I want to live before I die

"London"

What I wanted to be was a family man,

But Nature had some alternative plans.

"Metamorphosis"

The sunset is deeper and longer

The scent of the jasmine is stronger

Stray dogs don't bite, birds start to sing

Lightning daren't strike, you suddenly bring

Bluer skies...

"Miracles"

...but here am I;

Once a caterpillar, now a butterfly.

"Metamorphosis"

Push me in a corner and I'll scream.

"One more chance"

I've got the brains, you've got the looks

Let's make lots of money

"Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)"

But for all of those who don't fit in,

Who follow their instincts and are told they sin,

This is a prayer for a different way.

"Red-letter day"

We never ever argue, we never calculate

The currency we've spent

(Ooooh) I love you, oh, you pay my rent

"Rent"

Don't call me pathetic;

I'm higher than you'll ever guess

And relentlessly tough, 'cause when the going gets rough

The tough get their pictures in the press

"Shameless"

Break a window by the town hall, listen, the siren screams

There in the distance like a roll-call of all the suburban dreams...

I only wanted something else to do but hang around...

"Suburbia"

I dreamt I was back in uniform

And a candidate for examination

History - someone had blunder'd -

And a voice rapped, 'Knuckle under'

Living on the law just short of delusion

When we fall in love, there's confusion

This must be the place I waited years to leave

"This must be the place I waited years to leave"

I look from my window down to the square

At workers still queueing patiently there

For market forces to provide

What history so far has denied

For a different kind of fate

Than to labour long and always wait...

"To step aside"

The more that you hate, the more that it grates.

"Up against it"

I reserve the right to live

My life this way, and I don't give

A damn when other people say

I'll pay the price that others pay

"Was it worth it?"

I close my eyes and see you better than before

Then I feel you touch me and it's 1984

I know what you will say before you start

In my heart we're the Pet Shop Boys

"We're the Pet Shop Boys" (cover of a song by My Robot Friend)

Will I get in your way or open your eyes?

Who will give whom the bigger surprise?

Young offender, how you resent

The lovers you need; it hurts when they bleed...

"Young offender"