 Genius Meanings
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Pet Shop Boys – Domino Dancing
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Neil says that the title of this song was inspired during a stay on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. “In the evening there was nothing to do except play dominoes; this friend of
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Pet Shop Boys – Viva La Vida / Domino Dancing
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[Intro] / Watch them all fall down / Watch them all fall down / [Verse 1] / I used to rule the world / Seas would rise when I gave the word / Now in the morning I sleep alone
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Pet Shop Boys – Domino Dancing [Extended Version]
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[Intro: The Voice in Fashion] / (All day, all day) / [Interlude] / [Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / I don't know why, I don't know how / I thought I loved you, but I'm not sure now / I've
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Pet Shop Boys – Domino Dancing (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
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[Verse 1] / I don't know why, I don't know how / I thought I loved you, but I'm not sure now / I've seen you look at strangers too many times / The love you want is of a different
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West End Girls – Domino Dancing
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[Intro] / All day, all day / [Verse 1] / I don't know why, I don't know how / I thought I loved you but I'm not sure now / I've seen you look at strangers too many times / A love
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Pet Shop Boys – I Cried for Us
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[Verse 1] / Love it's not I who didn't try / Hard enough hard enough / And this is why I'm saying goodbye / I've had enough, I've had enough / [Verse 2] / Love you don't see the
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Pet Shop Boys – You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk [Top of the Pops - 2000/01/14]
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[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / What a performance tonight / Should I react or turn off the light? / Looks like you're picking a fight / In a blurring of wrong and right / But how your
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Pet Shop Boys – In the Night (Arthur Baker's Extended Mix) [12" Version]
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[Verse 1] / Zazou, whatcha gonna do? / There's a lot of people gunning for you / Zazou, comment allez-vous? / A knock on the door in the night / [Verse 2] / That Zazou, he don't
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Pet Shop Boys – That’s My Impression
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[Verse 1] / I went looking for someone I couldn't find / Staring at faces by the serpentine / Walking slowly, I realised / You'd been and gone, I know you lied / [Chorus] / That's
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Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls (Dance Mix) [12" Version]
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[Intro: Neil Tennant] / West End girls / [Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / Sometimes you're better off dead / There's gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head / You think you're mad
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Pet Shop Boys – "Brits" Medley
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Suburbia / [Verse] / Lost in the high street, where the dogs run / Roaming suburban boys / Mother's got her hairdo to be done / She says they're too old for toys / [Chorus] / Let's
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Pet Shop Boys – It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas (New Version)
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[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / Christmas is not all it's cracked up to be / Families fighting around a plastic tree / Nothing on the TV that you'd want to see / And it's hardly ever
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Pet Shop Boys – Losing My Mind (Disco Mix) [12" Version]
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[Verse 1] / The sun comes up, I think about you / The coffee cup, I think about you / I want you so, it's like I'm losing my mind / [Verse 2] / The morning ends, I think about you
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Pet Shop Boys – I Want a Dog
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[Verse 1] / I want a dog / A chihuahua / When I get back to my small flat / I want to hear somebody bark / [Refrain] / Oh, you can get lonely / [Verse 2] / Don't want a cat
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Pet Shop Boys – The Loving Kind (Monitor Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes / I watch you when you're sleeping / I wonder what you're feeling / Both wide awake and dreaming / Of yesterday / [Chorus] / Oh baby if you find / I'm not the
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Pet Shop Boys – Always on My Mind [Top of the Pops - 1987/12/10]
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[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / Maybe I didn't treat you / Quite as good as I should / Maybe I didn't love you / Quite as often as I could / [Pre-Chorus 1: Neil Tennant] / Little things
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Pet Shop Boys – Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix)
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[Refrain] / Sooner or later, sooner or later / This happens to everyone / To everyone / [Interlude] / [Verse 1] / You can live your life lonely / Heavy as stone / Live your life
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Pet Shop Boys – Flamboyant [Top of the Pops - 2004/03/19]
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[Intro: Neil Tennant] / Flamboyant / Flamboyant / [Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / You live in a world of excess / Where more is more / And less is much less / A day without fame / Is a
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Pet Shop Boys – Was It Worth It?
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“It’s a reaffirmation of the worth of love– an ‘I am what I am’ sort of song.“
–Neil Tennant, from the Pet Shop Boys website.
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Pet Shop Boys – Always on My Mind [Top of the Pops - 1987/12/10]
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[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / Maybe I didn't treat you / Quite as good as I should / Maybe I didn't love you / Quite as often as I could / [Pre-Chorus 1: Neil Tennant] / Little things
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Pet Shop Boys – Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix)
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[Refrain] / Sooner or later, sooner or later / This happens to everyone / To everyone / [Interlude] / [Verse 1] / You can live your life lonely / Heavy as stone / Live your life
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Pet Shop Boys – Flamboyant [Top of the Pops - 2004/03/19]
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[Intro: Neil Tennant] / Flamboyant / Flamboyant / [Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / You live in a world of excess / Where more is more / And less is much less / A day without fame / Is a
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Pet Shop Boys – Was It Worth It?
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“It’s a reaffirmation of the worth of love– an ‘I am what I am’ sort of song.“
–Neil Tennant, from the Pet Shop Boys website.
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Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring (Extended Mix)
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[Verse 1] / I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties / "Dress in white" one said, with quotations / From someone's wife, a famous writer / In the
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Pet Shop Boys – The Former Enfant Terrible (PSB Bring It On Mix)
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Pity him, the former / Enfant terrible / His career in aspic / Bent on pleasure / Gamely attempting / The tricky transition / From ageing outrage / To national treasure / "Gimme a
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Pet Shop Boys – My Girl (Our House Mix)
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Oh, my girl / Oh, my girl / My girl's mad at me / I didn't wanna see the film tonight / I found it hard to say / She thought I'd had enough of her / My girl's mad at me / Been on
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Pet Shop Boys (Ft. Philip Oakey) – This Used to Be the Future
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[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / I can remember when this was the future / Where it was gonna be at back then / Why don't we tear the whole bloody lot down / And make a new start all over
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Pet Shop Boys – It's a Sin
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“It’s a Sin” is a Pet Shop Boys' classic that describes Tennant’s Catholic upbringing and education at St Cuthbert’s High School. It is a critique of religion as it makes people
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Pet Shop Boys – I'm Not Scared
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[Verse 1] / Your life's a mystery, mine is an open book / If I could read your mind, I think I'd take a look / I don't care, baby, I'm not scared / [Verse 2] / What have you got to
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Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
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London in the 80s was divided (and still is) into the wealthy West End and the more down-at-heel, East End.
The major entertainment centre of London is based around the West End
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Pet Shop Boys – Together
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[Intro] / Together we’ll go all the way / [Verse 1] / Tell me what you want from me / Give me what I need from you / Anything you wanna do / And I need to follow through
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Pet Shop Boys – Left to My Own Devices
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[Intro: Sally Bradshaw] / House / House / [Interlude] / [Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / I get out of bed at half past ten / Phone up a friend who's a party animal / Turn on the news and
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Pet Shop Boys – It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas (New Version)
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[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / Christmas is not all it's cracked up to be / Families fighting around a plastic tree / Nothing on the TV that you'd want to see / And it's hardly ever
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Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind
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Cover of the country standard written by Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson, first recorded by Brenda Lee and made famous by Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley and numerous
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Pet Shop Boys – It's Alright [10" Version]
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[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / Dictation being forced in Afghanistan / Revolution in South Africa taking a stand / People in Eurasia on the brink of oppression / [Chorus: Neil Tennant
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Pet Shop Boys – Go West
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A cover of the 1979 Village People song “Go West”, about young gay men heading west to San Francisco.
The Pet Shop Boys version was released in 1993, not long after the breakup of
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Pet Shop Boys – Did You See Me Coming? (PSB Possibly More Mix)
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Women seeking men / Men seeking women / Women seeking women / Men seeking men / For friendship / For possibly more / Women seeking men / Men seeking women / Women seeking women
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Pet Shop Boys – Heart / Go West (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
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[Spoken Intro] / All right, here's another old song, in another new version. But which old song? There are so many to choose from! / [Intro] / My heart starts missing a beat / My
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Pet Shop Boys – Left to My Own Devices [7" Version]
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[Verse 1] / I get out of bed at half past ten / Phone up a friend who's a party animal / Turn on the news and drink some tea / Maybe if you're with me we'll do some shopping / [
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Pet Shop Boys – Home and Dry [Video Mix]
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[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / So my baby's on the road / Doing business, selling loads / Charming everyone there / With the sweetest smile / [Pre-Chorus: Neil Tennant] / Oh tonight / I
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Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring
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[Verse 1] / I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties / "Dress in white," one said with quotations / From someone's wife, a famous writer / In the
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Pet Shop Boys – Go West [Album Version - PARTY Edit]
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[Intro] / Come on, come on, come on, come on / [Verse 1] / (Together) We will go our way / (Together) We will leave someday / (Together) Your hand in my hand / (Together) We will
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Pet Shop Boys – Was It Worth It? [Video Mix]
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[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / Well I don't know why / I was dreaming about you / But I do know that / I was dancing without you / [Pre-Chorus 1: Neil Tennant] / Then you smiled, and I
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