Released: October 22, 1990
Songwriter: Neil Tennant Chris Lowe
Producer: Pet Shop Boys Harold Faltermeyer
[Verse 1]
Floods of tears and doors slamming
Stamping feet across the landing
Because of your obligation
To stay home and fight
Sitting down to a composition
Test the limits of your inhibition
If the phone hasn't rung by midnight
It's over tonight
[Chorus]
If someone tried, you'd realise
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Verse 2]
Piles of toast and broken promises
Among the books and pens and reading glasses
It seems there's no escape from the humdrum
It's over and done
[Chorus]
If someone tried, you'd realise
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Chorus]
If someone cried, you'd sympathise
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Bridge]
At midnight in desperation
Imagine total teenage destruction
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
The prophets all predicted extinction
The virgin spoke in apparitions
And if it all came to pass now
You feel we'd all deserve it somehow
[Chorus]
But if someone tried, you'd realise
(You'd realise and sympathise)
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Chorus]
If someone cried, you'd sympathise
(You'd sympathise and realise)
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Outro]
It's not the end
Floods of tears and doors slamming
Stamping feet across the landing
Because of your obligation
To stay home and fight
Sitting down to a composition
Test the limits of your inhibition
If the phone hasn't rung by midnight
It's over tonight
[Chorus]
If someone tried, you'd realise
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Verse 2]
Piles of toast and broken promises
Among the books and pens and reading glasses
It seems there's no escape from the humdrum
It's over and done
[Chorus]
If someone tried, you'd realise
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Chorus]
If someone cried, you'd sympathise
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Bridge]
At midnight in desperation
Imagine total teenage destruction
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
The prophets all predicted extinction
The virgin spoke in apparitions
And if it all came to pass now
You feel we'd all deserve it somehow
[Chorus]
But if someone tried, you'd realise
(You'd realise and sympathise)
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Chorus]
If someone cried, you'd sympathise
(You'd sympathise and realise)
It's just a boy or a girl
It's not the end of the world
[Outro]
It's not the end
more tracks from the album
Behaviour: Further Listening 1990 – 1991
- Being Boring
- Only the Wind
- Miserablism
- This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave (Extended) [3" Version]
- So Hard (Extended Dance Mix)
- Being Boring (Extended Mix)
- We All Feel Better in the Dark (Extended Mix)
- Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You) (Extended Mix)
- Jealousy (Extended Mix)
- DJ Culture (Extended Mix)
- Was It Worth It? [12" Version]
- The End of the World
- How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?
- This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave
- Bet She’s Not Your Girlfriend
- My October Symphony
- It Must Be Obvious
- So Hard
- DJ Culture
- Jealousy
- To Face the Truth
- Generic Jingle
- Nervously
- Music for Boys (Part 2) [Ambient Mix]
From the albums
- Behaviour (1990)
- Behaviour: Further Listening 1990 – 1991 (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