Pet Shop Boys at dead of night

Lyrics - Bilingual

Discoteca
Single
Metamorphosis
Electricity
Se A Vida E (That's The Way Life Is)
It Always Comes As A Surprise
A Red Letter Day
Up Against It
The Survivors
Before
To Step Aside
Saturday Night Forever

Discoteca

Hay una discoteca por aqui? [Is there a disco near here?]

I don't speak the language
I can't understand a 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 am lost?
I'm doing what I do to see me through
I'm going out and carrying on as normal

Hay una discoteca por aqui?

Te quiero [I love you]
Entiende usted? [Do you understand?]
Digame [Tell me]
Cuanto tiempo tengo que esperar? [For how long must I wait?]

(Disco disco disco disco)
(Dis-dis-dis-dis-discoteca)
(Disco disco disco disco)
(Dis-dis-dis-dis-discoteca)

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 aqui?

Te quiero
Entiende usted?
Digame
Cuanto tiempo tengo que esperar?
 

Single

I'm single bilingual
Single bilingual

They call this a community
I like to think of it as home
Arriving at the airport
I am going 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' [Excuse me, my name is Neil]

I'm single bilingual
Single bilingual

In Brussels, Bonn or Barcelona
I'm in demand and quite at home there
'Adelante!' [Come in!]
Through the door
'Un momento por favor' [One moment, please]
This is what I get paid for
'Muchas gracias seòor' [Many thanks, sir]

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 aqui?
 

Metamorphosis

[Metamorphosis metamorphosis metamorphosis metamorphosis]

I wanna know yeah
I wanna know

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 me 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 love 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 and often at night
A particular feeling would surface
In spite of what I'd told myself and tried to deny
I kept on asking the question: why?

Why? Why? Why?
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 the 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 (sex)
I wanna know (sex)
I wanna know yeah
Tell me what's the reason (sex)
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
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
[Metamorphosis]

[Metamorphosis metamorphosis]
 

Electricity

What does it mean?
What are you doing in San Fransisco?
Get out of here and take your cake with you

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

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 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 É (That's The Way Life Is)

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 é, I love you
Come outside and feel the morning sun
Se a vida é, I love you
Life is much more simple when you're young
Come on, essa vida é
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 é, I love you
Come outside and feel the morning sun
Se a vida é, I love you
Life is much more simple when you're young
Come on, essa vida é
That's the way life is
That's the way life is

Why do 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 your 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 é, I love you
Come outside and feel the morning sun
Se a vida é, I love you
Life is much more simple when you're young
Come on, essa vida é
That's the way life is
That's the way life is
 

It Always Comes As A Surprise

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
 

A Red Letter Day

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

News in this 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 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

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 twin-sets 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

The telephone's not answered
So many times you'll call
For many different reasons
So many tears will fall before

You'll 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'll 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 (before before before)
It's happened before (before before)

Coincidence and patience
Will mend this fatal flaw
Though it may seem a long wait
Others have been here before

You'll 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 (before before before)
It's happened before (before before)

You'll find your love before
It comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for

You'll find your love before
It comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for

It's happened before (before before before)
It's happened before (before before)
 

To Step Aside

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

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)