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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 – Suburbia
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[Verse 1] / 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 / Stood by the bus stop
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Pet Shop Boys – Suburbia (The Full Horror)
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[Intro] / Suburbia, where the suburbs met utopia / Where the suburbs met utopia / [Verse 1] / Lost in the high street, where the dogs run / Roaming suburban boys / Mother's got her
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Pet Shop Boys – Suburbia [7"Version]
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[Verse 1] / 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 / Stood by the bus stop
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Pet Shop Boys – Suburbia [Video Mix]
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[Intro: Neil Tennant] / Suburbia, where the suburbs met utopia / Where the suburbs met utopia / [Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / Lost in the high street, where the dogs run / Roaming
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Pet Shop Boys – Suburbia [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
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[Intro] / Hey, you! / [Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / 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
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Pet Shop Boys – We’re the Pet Shop Boys
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[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / Suburbia's a slipstream to a memory / Of a time when you were close to me / I pretend / I'm there again / I close my eyes and see you / Better than before
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Robbie Williams (Ft. Pet Shop Boys) – We're the Pet Shop Boys
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11th track of Rudebox.
Robbie said: “I just love the fact that the Pet Shop Boys covered it, it is not one of their songs and I love the irony of me covering a cover. Above all
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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's a Sin [Top of the Pops - 1987/06/25]
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[Verse 1: Neil Tennant] / 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 when or
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Will Wood – Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally
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[Greetings from Mary Bell Township!] / [Intro] / Do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do, ba-ba-ba / Do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba / Good morning / [Verse 1] / White picket
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Pet Shop Boys – Girls Don't Cry
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[Verse 1] / Somewhere out in the heart of suburbia / Flinching from the words that could almost murder her / Listen / It's the final day / [Chorus] / Whatever boys say / Girls don'
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Pet Shop Boys – Flamboyant
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[Verse 1] / You live in a world of excess / Where more is more / And less is much less / A day without fame / Is a waste / And a question of need / Is a question of taste / [Chorus
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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 – 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 – 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 – Later Tonight
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[Chorus] / You wait 'til later / 'Til later tonight / You wait 'til later, 'til later / 'Til later tonight / [Verse] / That boy never cast a look in your direction / Never tried to
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Pet Shop Boys – Violence
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[Verse 1] / The sons and brothers / Fighting for another cause / Anything to give their lives some meaning / Busy with their guns and dreaming / Far away from here / Said they
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Pet Shop Boys – Paninaro
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[Verse 1: Chris Lowe] / Passion and love and sex and money / Violence, religion, injustice, and death / [Chorus: Neil Tennant] / Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh / [Verse 2: Chris
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Pet Shop Boys – Somewhere
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[Spoken Intro: Russ Tamblyn] / You want to live in this lousy world? / You want to live in this lousy world? / You want to live in this lousy world? / [Verse 1: Neil Tennant
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Pet Shop Boys – Heart [Wogan - 1988/03/30]
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[Intro: Ian McKellen] / [Verse 1: Neil Tennant "& Ian McKellen"] / Every time I see you / Something happens to me / "Like a chain reaction" / Between you and me / [Chorus: Neil
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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 – Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
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Originally released in 1985, the lyrics for ‘Opportunties’ were written in the early 80s by Neil Tennant. Challenged by co-conspirator Chris Lowe to craft a song around the hook ‘
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Pet Shop Boys – Miracles
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[Verse 1] / Clouds drift away / When they see you / Rain wouldn't dare / To fall near you here / Miracles happen / When you're around / Somehow the grass is much greener / Rivers
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Pet Shop Boys – It's Alright [7" 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 – 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 – Two Divided by Zero
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[Intro] / Two divided by zero, zero / Two divided by zero, zero, zero / [Verse 1] / Let's not go home / We'll catch the late train / I've got enough money / To pay on the way
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Pet Shop Boys – Why Don't We Live Together?
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[Intro] / There comes a time in everyone's life / When all of the parties every night / They're not enough / You want something more / I want you / I want you / [Verse 1] / I find
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Pet Shop Boys – Building a Wall
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Protection! Prevention! Detection! Detention! / There's nowhere to defect to any more! / Protection! Prevention! Detection! Detention! / There's nowhere to defect to any more! / I'
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Pet Shop Boys – Tonight Is Forever
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[Verse 1] / I may be wrong, I may be right / Money's short and time is tight / Don't even think about those bills / Don't pay the price, we never will / We're out again, another
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Pet Shop Boys – Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) [Full Length Original 7" Version]
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[Verse 1] / I've had enough of scheming / And messing around with jerks / My car is parked outside / I'm afraid it doesn't work / I'm looking for a partner / Someone who gets
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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 – 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 – 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 – Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) [Original 7'' Version]
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[Verse 1] / I've had enough of scheming / And messing around with jerks / My car is parked outside / I'm afraid it doesn't work / I'm looking for a partner / Someone who gets
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Pet Shop Boys – Se a Vida É (That’s the Way Life Is)
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This was the second single released from the Pet Shop Boys‘ 1996 album Bilingual. It was released in the U.K. on 12 August 1996 (and on April 1, 1997 in the U.S.) and peaked at #8
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Pet Shop Boys – Heart (7"Version)
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[Verse 1] / Every time I see you / Something happens to me / Like a chain reaction / Between you and me / [Chorus] / My heart starts missing a beat / My heart starts missing a beat
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Pet Shop Boys – Miracles (radio edit)
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[Verse 1] / Clouds drift away / When they see you / Rain wouldn't dare / To fall near you here / Miracles happen / When you're around / Somehow the grass is much greener / Rivers
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Pet Shop Boys – DJ Culture
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[Intro] / "Attention, attention... / Trente-neuf, quarante" / [Verse 1] / Imagine a war which everyone won / Permanent holiday in endless sun / Peace without wisdom, one steals to
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Pet Shop Boys – In the Night
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A B-side from the 1985 single release of “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money)”. The song is about the “Zazous”, a underground cultural scene during the German occupation of
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