Pet Shop Boys at dead of night

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Home And Dry
I Get Along
Birthday Boy
London
E-mail
The Samurai In Autumn
Love Is A Catastrophe
Here
The Night I Fell In Love
You Choose

Home And Dry

(Tennant/Lowe)

So my baby's on the road
Doing business, selling loads
Charming everyone there
With the sweetest smile

Oh tonight
I miss you
Oh tonight
I wish you
Could be here with me
But I won't see you
'Til you've made it back again
Home and dry
Home and dry-e-i-e-i

There's a plane at JFK
To fly you back from far away
All those dark and frantic
Transatlantic miles

Oh tonight
I miss you
Oh tonight
I wish you
Could be here with me
But I won't see you
'Til you've made it back again
Home and dry
Home and dry-e-i-e-i
Home and dry
Home and dry-e-i-e-i

Far away
Through night and day
You fly long haul tonight
Come to me
You know I'll be here
When you call tonight

Oh tonight
I miss you
Oh tonight
I wish you
Could be here with me
But I won't see you
'Til you've made it back again

Home and dry
(We're going home)
Home and dry-e-i-e-i
Home and dry
(We're going home)
Home and dry-e-i-e-i

Your baby waits, tonight

I Get Along

(Tennant/Lowe)

Feeling like I'm stuck in a hole
Body and soul
While you're out of control
Now I know where you had to go
Well, I think we both know
That it had to be so

I've been trying not to cry
When I'm in the public eye
Stuck here with the shame
I'm taking
My share of the blame
While making
Sudden plans that don't include you

I get along, get along
Without you very well
I get along fairly well
I get along, get along
Without you very well
I get along fairly well

Now I know you'd much rather be
With rock royalty
Instead of someone like me
The big boys are back and we need them, you said
Think it was something you'd read
And it stuck in your head

Even though I don't suppose
That's as far as it goes
You've got quite an appetite for
Being wronged and in the right, well
From now on it won't affect me

I get along, get along
Without you very well
I get along fairly well
I get along, get along
Without you very well
I get along fairly well

The morning after the night before
I've been alerted
To your lies
I phoned you up
The calls were all diverted
Took a long time to track you down
Even then you were defiant
It's not what you think it is, you said
And preceded to deny it

So I lost my patience at last
And it happens so fast
You belong in the past

I've been trying not to cry
When I'm in the public eye
Stuck here with the shame
I'm taking
My share of the blame
While making
Sudden plans that don't include you

I get along, get along
Without you very well
I get along fairly well
I get along, get along
Without you very well
I get along fairly well

I get along, get along
Without you very well
I get along fairly well
I get along, get along
Without you very well
I get along fairly well

Birthday Boy

(Tennant/Lowe)

Birthday boy can't explain
Christmas Eve, he's born again
On the line a broken train
Going nowhere, endless rain
Birthday boy, so afraid
Plays the machines in the arcade

Oh baby, do you remember
He's been through all this before?
Spent the summer
Getting nowhere
Taking all of the blame
For the city
Calculating
From pain comes pity

Christmas Eve, the time of joy
If you believe in Birthday boy
This time around it's all a mistake
Is he deluded or just a fake?

Oh baby, do you remember
He's been through all this before?
Spent the summer
Getting nowhere
Taking all of the blame
For the city
Calculating
From pain comes pity

If you knew his name
Would you feel the same?
If you knew his name?

Birthday boy stands apart
As the drama's about to start
A quick betrayal, a speedy trial
As before complete denial

Oh baby, do you remember
He's been through all this before?
Spent the summer
Getting nowhere
Taking all of the blame
For the city
Calculating
From pain comes pity

If you knew his name
Would you feel the same?

London

(Tennant/Lowe/Zippel)

We came from the far North
Summered in Crimea
Deserted the armed forces
Had to disappear
Made it to the free West
On a chartered flight
So we could see what
We trained to fight

We were in London
"Let's do it - let's break the law!"
We were in London
Tell it like it is
We were in London
Tell it like it is
We were in London

Looking for hard work
Or credit card fraud
What do you expect from us?
We come from abroad
To get ourselves a new job
On a building site
They work you so hard, but
We trained to fight

We were in London
"Let's do it - let's break the law!"
We were in London
Tell it like it is
We were in London
"Let's do it - let's break the law!"
We were in London
Tell it like it is

[Tell it like it is]

My father fought in Afghanistan
His widow's pension ain't worth a damn
My mother works and goes home to cry
I want to live before I die

We were in London
"Let's do it - let's break the law!"
We were in London
Tell it like it is

We were in London
"Let's do it - let's break the law!"
We were in London
Tell it like it is

We were in London
Tell it like it is

Tell it like
Tell it like it is

E-Mail

(Tennant/Lowe)

Communication's never been
As easy as today
And it would make me happy
When you've gone so far away
If you'd send me an email that says "I love you"
Send me an email that says "I love you"

Now time and distance melt away
No digital delay
And some things can be written down
That we're to shy to say
Send me an email that says "I love you"
Send me an email that says "I love you"

There may be other
Temptations in your life
Don't want to add more
Complications to your life
By sending this email to say "I love you"
By sending this email to say "I love you"

Now there's a ghost within this house
You're haunting me tonight
I'm looking at some photographs
And thinking that I might
Jump on a plane and surprise you where
you are
But do you want me there?

I'm so insecure
But one thing would make me sure
If you'd send me an email that says "I love you"
Send me an email that says "I love you"
Send me an email that says "I love you"

The Samurai In Autumn

(Tennant/Lowe)

It's not as easy as it was
Or as different as it could be
For the Samurai in autumn

Love Is A Catastrophe

(Tennant/Lowe)

Love is a catastrophe
Look what it's done to me
Brought me down here so low
Stranded, nowhere to go

No concentration
Just rerunning conversation
Trying to understand
How I fell into this quicksand

What happens next?
With life I'm unimpressed
Pain like a cutter's knife
Never been lonelier in my life

Who issued the instruction
For this mad act of destruction?
An end to equilibrium
Fate laughs: "Look what we've done to him"
High wind through the trees
Falling November leaves
A weak sun hanging low
Summer seems so long ago

All my former dreams
Tender romantic schemes
Revealed as so naive
To think I could believe
In love as the kindest law
Not as a declaration of war
On my life and sanity
Now I know at last for me
Love is a catastrophe

Here

(Tennant/Lowe)

We all have a dream of a place we belong
The fire is burning and the radio's on
Somebody smiles and it means "I love you"
But sometimes we don't notice when the dream has come true

You've got a home here
Call it what you want
You've got a home here
To return to when you can't
Face the world and you need
Some support to succeed
You've got a home

We all make a mess of our lives from time to time
It's part of the process that you stumble as you climb
And if you ever feel the pain is far too big a deal
I say with pride I'll be on your side

You've got a home here (you've got a home)
Call it what you want
You've got a home here (you've got a home)
You're gonna want it when you can't
Face the world and you need
Some support to succeed
You've got a home

You've got a home

The Night I Fell In love

(Tennant/Lowe)

I was backstage
Couldn't believe my luck was in
I saw him approach
Wearing a most approachable grin
When he said "Hello" I was surprised
He spoke so politely
I said I'd liked the show
Well, he just smiled
I guess it happens nightly and so
I fell in love

We went to his room
He had a video camera
I was so nervous
I had to try hard not to stammer
He said: "I'm glad you liked the show
That crowd was dope out there tonight
Alright
You wanna see some more?
Well, be my guest
You can have a private performance"
I'd fallen in love

I didn't ask why
Though he seemed like such a regular guy
He said we could be secret lovers
Just him and me
Then he joked: "Hey man!
Your name isn't Stan, is it?
We should be together!"
And he was passionate
I guess I would rate
Him a nine out of ten
By then
I'd fallen in love

When I've asked
Why have I heard so much
About him being charged
With homophobia and stuff
He just shrugged

Next morning we woke (secret lovers)
He couldn't have been a nicer bloke
Over breakfast made jokes
About Dre and his homies and folks
Neither of us asked if or when
We would see each other again
But I thought that was cool
'Cause I was already late for school
By then
I'd fallen in love

(Secret lovers)

You Choose

(Tennant/Lowe)

He's gone, you've lost
Stay behind and count the cost
You try, you loose
You don't fall in love by chance
You choose

It's a decision made overtime
Should you take the risk and start to climb
The steepest hill only to find
Halfway there you've been left behind?

Choosing to love is risking a lot
And trying to change and to give all you've got
But don't pretend it comes out of the blue
You take a chance and see it through
And if it's refused what can you do?
Continue hopefully? Start a new?

Lick your wounds, buy your booze
You won't get drunk by accident
You'll choose
Don't blame him for refusing your bid
He didn't decide to love
You did

Learn the lesson, take the blows
You didn't fall in love by chance
You choose
Play the sad songs, sing the blues
You don't fall in love by chance
You choose

You choose

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