Pet Shop Boys

5 June 1986

Opportunities (Let’s make lots of money)

31 May 1993

Can you forgive her?

Another night with open eyes too late to sleep, too soon to rise You’re short of breath, is it a heart attack? Hot and feverish you face the fact you’re in love and it feels like shame because she’s gone and made a fool of you in public again You’re in love and it feels like pain because you know there’s too much truth in everything she claims

So ask yourself now Can you forgive her if she wants you to? Ask yourself Can you even deliver what she demands of you?

You drift into the strangest dreams of youthful follies and changing teams Admit you’re wrong, oh, no, not yet Then you wake up and remember that you can’t forget 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 gonna go and get herself a real man instead

So ask yourself now Can you forgive her if she begs you to? Ask yourself Can you even deliver what she demands of you? Or do you want revenge? But that’s childish, so childish

Remember when you were more easily led behind the cricket pavilion and the bicycle shed Trembling as your dreams came true you looked right 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 It’s bad enough she knows how you feel but she’s not prepared to share you with a memory

24 May 2014

24 May 1986

West End girls

24 May 1986

Opportunities

8 May 2006

I’m with Stupid

Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid

See you on the TV Call you every day Fly across the ocean Just to let you get your way No one understands me Where I’m coming from Why would I be with someone who’s obviously so dumb? Love comes Love grows every time you rise to meet me take my hand to greet me Love comes Love grows and power can give a man much more than anybody knows

Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid

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 It comes It grows and now we’re tied together everybody knows

Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid

Is stupid really stupid or a different kind of smart? Do we really have a relationship so special in your heart?

Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid Oh-oh, I’m with Stupid

I have to ask myself like any lover might: Have you made a fool of me? Are you not Mr Right? You grin I pose It’s not about sincerity Everybody knows

30 April 2013

Axis

17 April 2002

West End girls

17 April 2002

New York City boy

17 April 2002

I get along

17 April 2002

Go West

15 April 2002

West End girls

15 April 2002

Home and dry

15 April 2002

Love is a catastrophe