Bilingual
Pet Shop Boys
℗ 1996
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- 1. Discoteca (Tennant - Lowe) [07:01]
- 2. Single (Tennant - Lowe) [05:44]
- 3. Metamorphosis [04:03]
- 4. Electricity [04:57]
- 5. Se A Vida E (That's The Way Life Is) (Ademario - Wellington Epiderme Negra - Nego Do Bar) [03:44]
- 6. It Always Comes As A Surprise [06:06]
- 7. Red Letter Day (Tennant - Lowe) [05:08]
- 8. Up Against It [04:16]
- 9. The Survivors [04:30]
- 10. Before (Tennant - Lowe) [04:14]
- 11. To Step Aside [03:48]
- 12. Saturday Night Forever [04:00]
Тексты:
Discoteca
(Tennant - Lowe)
Hay una discoteca por acqui? I don't speak the language I can't understand the word Where angels fear to tread I've sometimes walked and tried to talk but how can I be heard in such a world when I'm lost? I'm doing what I do to see me through I'm going out and carrying on as normal Hay una discoteca por acqui? Te quiero Entiende usted? Digame Cuanto tiempo tengo que esperar? I don't speak in anger though the chances that I've let pass me by and now regret I can't forget They're haunting me like a score of unpaid debts Is it enough to live in hope that one day we'll be free without this fear? I'm going out and carrying on as normal Hay una discoteca por acqui? Te quiero Entiende usted? Digame Cuanto tiempo tengo que esperar?
Single
(Tennant - Lowe)
They call this a community I like to think of it as home Arriving at the airport I'm going at it alone Ordering a boarding pass Travelling in business class This is the name of the game I'm single bilingual Single bilingual I come to the community from U.K. p.l.c. Arriving at my hotel there are faxes greeting me Staying in a junior suite so there's room to meet and greet and after work explain how I feel 'Perdoneme me llamo Neil' I'm single bilingual Single bilingual In Brussels Bonn or Barcelona I'm in demand and quite at home there 'Adelante' Through the door 'Un momento por favor' This is what I get paid for 'Muchas gracias senor' I'm a player in the continental game with unlimited expenses to reclaim Information's easy Tapping at my PC That is the frame of the game I'm single bilingual Single bilingual I'm single bilingual Single bilingual Hay una discoteca por acqui?
Metamorphosis
METAMORPHOSIS (Tennant/Lowe) Please allow me to try and explain I'm living proof that man can change I knew what I wanted I knew how to get it It didn't make it happy so I started again What I wanted to be was a family man but nature had some alternative plans So I did without the lot put emotion on hold and hoped my instincts would do what they were told I wanna know yeah I wanna know But every now and then often at night a particular feeling would surface in spite of what I told myself and tried to deny I kept on asking the question: why? I wanna know yeah I wanna know You grow up and experience this a total metamorphosis It's all about change It's a metamorphosis With time and age I had to change 'cause my behaviour was getting strange People on the street caught my eye and I began to think I might be their kind of guy The long-term suppression of an adolescent urge was in retreat and I was on the verge of falling in love or having fun Time was running out Something had to be done I wanna know yeah I wanna know I wanna know yeah Tell me what's the reason Where was I? Laying down the law dancing with others out on the floor Music and smoke What did it mean? Somebody spoke and I went into a dream I had what I wanted madly in love Nothing else mattered This was enough Questions were answered which used to perplex in particular those about the big s.e.x. I wanna know yeah I wanna know I wanna know yeah Tell me what's the reason You grow up and experience this A total metamorphosis It's all about love It's a metamorphosis Dreaming is easy life is tough I got the picture The most important thing is not to end up bitter 'cause when you start to feel increasingly forlorner woomph! love comes right around the corner It may not last but here am I once a caterpillar now a butterfly It can seem strange but when you reminisce It's all about change It's a metamorphosis I wanna know yeah I wanna know I wanna know It's all about love It's a metamorphosis You grow up and experience this A total metamorphosis It's all about change It's a metamorphosis I wanna know yeah I wanna know I wanna know yeah I wanna know It's all about change It's a metamorphosis I wanna know yeah I wanna know It's all about love It's a metamorphosis
Electricity
ELECTRICITY (Tennant/Lowe) I'm an artist honey you'll see me sometimes making crazy pictures out of music and rhymes Costume changes performed with poise Dancing in formation with a couple of boys I take them on the road with my reel-to-reels I'm an artist honey You know how that feels? It's the greatest show with the best effects since Disco-Tex and the Sexelettes It's the greatest show with the best effects since Disco-Tex and the Sexelettes It's all about wonder the power to be like thunder expressing electricity It's the greatest show with the best effects since Disco-Tex and the Sexelettes Disco-Tex and the Sexelettes Call it performance call it art I call it disaster if the tapes don't start I've put all my life into live lip-sync I'm an artist honey You gonna get me a drink? It's the greatest show with the best effects since Disco-Tex and the Sexelettes It's all about wonder the power to be like thunder expressing electricity It's the greatest show with the best effects since Disco-Tex and the Sexelettes Disco-Tex and the Sexelettes
Se A Vida E (That's The Way Life Is)
(Ademario - Wellington Epiderme Negra - Nego Do Bar)
Come outside and see a brand new day The troubles in your mind will blow away It's easy to believe they're here to stay but you won't find them standing in your way Se a vida й I love you Come outside and feel the morning sun Se a vida й I love you Life is much more simple when you're young Come on essa vida й That's the way life is That's the way life is Although we see the world through different eyes We share the same idea of paradise So don't search in the stars for signs of love Look around your life you'll find enough Se a vida й I love you Come outside and feel the morning sun Se a vida й I love you Life is much more simple when you're young Come on essa vida й That's the way life is That's the way life is Why don't you want to sit alone in gothic gloom surrounded by the ghosts of love that haunt your room? Somewhere there's a different door to open wide You gotta throw those skeletons out of the closet and come outside So you will see a brand new day The troubles in your mind will blow away It's easy to believe they're here to stay but you won't find them standing in your way Se a vida й I love you Come outside and feel the morning sun Se a vida й I love you Life is much more simple when you're young Come on essa vida й That's the way life is That's the way life is
It Always Comes As A Surprise
IT ALWAYS COMES AS A SURPRISE (Tennant/Lowe) I can't be cool or nonchalant Call me an impulsive fool You're all I want You may be right It's too much too soon to talk of love all night in your bedroom I don't know why it always comes as a surprise to find I'm here with you You smile and I am rubbing my eyes at a dream come true I won't play games or waste your time but I won't feel ashamed to speak my mind So just relax Don't question why for calculated facts will not apply I don't know why it always comes as a surprise to find I'm here with you You smile and I am rubbing my eyes at a dream come true In my life there've been few who've affected me the way you do (you do you do) I'll tell no lies I won't pretend but if you've a broken heart I'll help it mend I don't know why it always comes as a surprise to find I'm here with you You smile and I am rubbing my eyes at a dream come true Smile and I am rubbing my eyes at a dream come true
Red Letter Day
(Tennant - Lowe)
Go to work and take your calls Hang the fruits of your labour on the walls Such precision and care What does it matter if there's no one here to share The flowers in the garden the wine the "Waiting for Godot" and so much modern time? All I want is what you want I'm always waiting for a red letter day The years perfecting a stance of measured cool fade into insignificance The moment one starts to understand What on earth does it profit a man? All I want is what you want I'm always waiting for a red letter day For something special somehow new someone saying 'I love you' Baby, I'm waiting for that red letter day You can sneer or disappear behind a veneer of self-control 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 All I want is what you want I'm always waiting for a red letter day Like Christmas morning when you're a kid Admit you love me and you always did Baby I'm hoping for that red letter day Today
Up Against It
UP AGAINST IT (Tennant/Lowe) News in the city breaks without pity Long after the war has ended we're still in fatigues Up against it The higher you fly the further you fall Up against it Wondering why we fought after all Such a cold winter with scenes as slow as Pinter Synchronise your watches there's still time to kill Up against it Drinking this swill to sweeten the pill Up against it The more that it hurts the less that it works Wrapped up in nostalgia to queue for a show Back to Trafalgar one kiss then I'll go So deep in quicklime the bones of an old crime I knew a man who raked them over He's still suffering Up against it Buried so deep it gives me the creeps Up against it The longer you hate the more that it grates Up against it Look left then right and run for your life Up against it The more that it hurts the less that it works
The Survivors
THE SURVIVORS (Tennant/Lowe) Cross a windy bridge one winter night Past Embankment Gardens enter warmth and light Face the music (it's never easy) Forget the chill Face the future (it's never easy) Find the will If life is worth living it's got to be done One might be forgiven for thinking it's a life on the run Many roads will cross through many lives but somehow you survive Look around Picture what's in store Is this the final edit or is the subject now a bore? Don't shrug your shoulders (it's always easy) You can't ignore That life is worth living it's still worth a damn One might be forgiven for thinking it's something of a sham Many words may make it sound contrived but somehow we're alive (The survivors) Our heads bowed (The survivors) At memorials for other faces in the crowd Teachers and artists (it's never easy) and Saturday girls in suits or sequins (it's never easy) or twinsets-and-pearls If life is worth living it's got to be run as a means of giving not as a race to be won Many roads will run through many lives but somehow we'll arrive Many roads will run through many lives but somewhere we'll survive
Before
(Tennant - Lowe)
The telephone's not answered So many times you'll call For many different reasons so many tears will fall before You find your love before it comes knocking at your door Before you know for sure this is what you were waiting for So many fears will haunt you Deny them or regret Some men will make you want to and you will not forget before You find your love before it comes knocking at your door Before you know for sure this is what you were waiting for There's a story of a man who loved too much He ended up inside a prison cell You've got to want to give to get it or you could land up in the same suspicious hell It's happened before It's happened before Coincidence and patience will mend this fatal flaw Though it may seem a long wait others have been here before You find your love before it comes knocking at your door Before you know for sure this is what you were waiting for One day when the phone starts ringing you'll answer to the words you're longing for No tears no trade no prison cell Whatever you need he will return more It's happened before It's happened before
To Step Aside
TO STEP ASIDE (Tennant/Lowe) By the cathedral into the sun pilgrims are singing their journey done I look at my short life and think of all the champagne that I drink with all the faces that I know and how much further can one go? And if I decide to step aside I will try to reply to the feelings I hide I look from my window down to the square at workers still queuing patiently there for market forces to provide what history's so far denied for a different kind of fate than to labour long and always wait And if I decide to step aside I will try to return to the person inside Will I always need you? Would you want me to? Can you love me for good the way you thought you could? Or will spring bring rain and summer burn? Will tears at last precede the turn from summer warmth to sudden cold as certainly as growing old? And if I decide to step aside I will try to forget all the tears I'll have cried
Saturday Night Forever
SATURDAY NIGHT FOREVER (Tennant/Lowe) I don't care what these commentators say I swear I don't care for what difference do they make? I go where I go and I get there fast Don't stop me I know that it's not gonna last Forever forever (Saturday night, Saturday night) Forever forever (Saturday night, Saturday night) If you see someone gorgeous then you think am I in with a chance? Should I try? Buy a drink? Or maybe it's too much like hard work tonight But if they look my way I might be alright Forever forever (Saturday night, Saturday night) Forever forever (Saturday night, Saturday night) I go where I go and I get there fast Don't stop me I know that it's not gonna last Forever forever (Saturday night, Saturday night) Forever forever (Saturday night, Saturday night)