Released: May 31, 2001
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
Hey, headmaster, what's the matter with you?
Why you always so serious? Why so blue?
All the kids in the school have seen you
Being patient with the boys who fool you
When you used to hit them with your ruler
So independent too
Hey, headmaster, what's the matter with you?
[Verse 2]
There's a crisis rumoured in the school
The boys have cut their hair short to look cool
Examination time is drawing near
Disintegration of the football team
No one seems to want to play for real
In classroom, club or pool
Hey, headmaster, what you gonna do?
[Verse 3]
There's an invitation in the post
To a reading party on the coast
Pack your bags up, you old bibliophile
Get together with your friends who will
Give you time to think and time to kill
With independent hosts
Hey, headmaster, aren't you gonna go?
Hey, headmaster, aren't you gonna go?
Hey, headmaster, what's the matter with you?
Why you always so serious? Why so blue?
All the kids in the school have seen you
Being patient with the boys who fool you
When you used to hit them with your ruler
So independent too
Hey, headmaster, what's the matter with you?
[Verse 2]
There's a crisis rumoured in the school
The boys have cut their hair short to look cool
Examination time is drawing near
Disintegration of the football team
No one seems to want to play for real
In classroom, club or pool
Hey, headmaster, what you gonna do?
[Verse 3]
There's an invitation in the post
To a reading party on the coast
Pack your bags up, you old bibliophile
Get together with your friends who will
Give you time to think and time to kill
With independent hosts
Hey, headmaster, aren't you gonna go?
Hey, headmaster, aren't you gonna go?
more tracks from the album
Alternative
- Decadence
- Was That What It Was?
- In the Night
- Some Speculation
- A New Life
- Your Funny Uncle
- One of the Crowd
- What Keeps Mankind Alive?
- Girls & Boys (Live in Rio)
- I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too)
- Miserablism
- Do I Have To?
- I Want a Dog (B-Side Version)
- The Sound of the Atom Splitting (Extended Mix) [7" Version]
- Losing My Mind
- Paninaro
- Jack the Lad
- We All Feel Better in the Dark
- If Love Were All (Bitter Sweet)
- Violence (Haçienda Version)
- Music for Boys
- Too Many People
- Hey, Headmaster
- That’s My Impression (Disco Mix)
- Don Juan
- Euroboy
- Bet She’s Not Your Girlfriend
- You Know Where You Went Wrong
- It Must Be Obvious
- Shameless
- A Man Could Get Arrested (Bobby Orlando Version)
From the albums
- Alternative (1995)
- Very: Further Listening 1992 – 1994 (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
- All Over the World (This Is A Dub)
- After All
- Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
- So Hard
- Breathing Space
- Radiophonic
- Memory of the Future