Released: August 10, 1987
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant Helena Springs
Producer: Pet Shop Boys David Jacobs
[Verse 1]
At night it hits me cold
There's so much more to life than I'll ever know
I look around and I realise
It's time to make a move though you don't sympathise
[Pre-Chorus]
Stars collect overhead
They look down over China and I might as well be dead
Cars pass on through the night
How do you get to heaven if you never try?
[Chorus]
New life, new love
Where's the heart I was dreaming of?
I need a new hope, new dream
Another part in a different scene
[Interlude]
[Verse 2]
Make a firm decision, it's time to go
That's for you to find out and for me to know
No more hard times or petty crimes
Forget that life I have left behind
[Pre-Chorus]
The night goes by
Leaving you behind me as I fly
Then rise the daylight sky
How do you get to heaven if you never try?
[Chorus]
New life, new love
Where's the heart I was dreaming of?
I need a new hope, new dream
Another part in a different scene
[Bridge]
A new life, it's so hard to find
A new love, it's so hard to find
[Interlude]
[Pre-Chorus]
The night goes by
Leaving you behind me as I fly
Then rise the daylight sky
How do you get to heaven if you never try?
[Chorus]
New life, new love
Where's the heart I was dreaming of?
I need a new hope, new dream
Another part in a different scene
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
New life, new love
Where's the heart I was dreaming of?
I need a new hope, new dream
Another part in a different scene
At night it hits me cold
There's so much more to life than I'll ever know
I look around and I realise
It's time to make a move though you don't sympathise
[Pre-Chorus]
Stars collect overhead
They look down over China and I might as well be dead
Cars pass on through the night
How do you get to heaven if you never try?
[Chorus]
New life, new love
Where's the heart I was dreaming of?
I need a new hope, new dream
Another part in a different scene
[Interlude]
[Verse 2]
Make a firm decision, it's time to go
That's for you to find out and for me to know
No more hard times or petty crimes
Forget that life I have left behind
[Pre-Chorus]
The night goes by
Leaving you behind me as I fly
Then rise the daylight sky
How do you get to heaven if you never try?
[Chorus]
New life, new love
Where's the heart I was dreaming of?
I need a new hope, new dream
Another part in a different scene
[Bridge]
A new life, it's so hard to find
A new love, it's so hard to find
[Interlude]
[Pre-Chorus]
The night goes by
Leaving you behind me as I fly
Then rise the daylight sky
How do you get to heaven if you never try?
[Chorus]
New life, new love
Where's the heart I was dreaming of?
I need a new hope, new dream
Another part in a different scene
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
New life, new love
Where's the heart I was dreaming of?
I need a new hope, new dream
Another part in a different scene
more tracks from the album
Actually: Further Listening 1987 – 1988
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Shopping
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Extended Mix) [12" Version]
- Always on My Mind (Dub Mix)
- I Want to Wake Up (Breakdown Mix)
- One More Chance [7" Version]
- Heart (Disco Remix) [12" Version]
- Always on My Mind (Demo)
- Rent [7" Version]
- Always on My Mind (Dance Mix) [12" Version]
- Do I Have To?
- Heart
- A New Life
- Hit Music
- Heart (Shep Pettibone Version)
- One More Chance
- It Couldn’t Happen Here
- I Want to Wake Up
- You Know Where You Went Wrong
- King’s Cross
- It’s a Sin
- It’s a Sin (Disco Mix) [12" Version]
- Rent
- I Want a Dog (B-Side Version)
From the albums
- Alternative (1995)
- Actually: Further Listening 1987 – 1988 (2001)
Pet Shop Boys popular songs
- West End Girls
- It’s a Sin
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
- Go West
- Always On My Mind
- Being Boring
- Suburbia
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Domino Dancing
- The Pop Kids
- Left to My Own Devices
- Rent
- New York City Boy
- Love etc.
- Love is a Bourgeois Construct
- Burning the heather
- Dreamland
- Closer to Heaven 3
- Footsteps
- Closer To Heaven / Left To My Own Devices
- Je T’aime Moi Non Plus
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Coconut 1 12" Mix) [Disco 2 Version]
- In His Imagination
- Sail Away