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

Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic pop duo comprised of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Formed in London in 1981, they’ve released fourteen LPs–in addition to a myriad of theatrical, film, and ballet scores–and have charted forty-two UK Top 30 singles, four of them making it to number 1.