Released: March 17, 1997
Songwriter: Neil Tennant Chris Lowe
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
Go to work and take your calls
Hang the fruits of your labour on the walls
Such precision and care
What does it matter if there's no one here to share?
The flowers in the garden, the wine
The Waiting for Godot and so much modern time?
[Chorus]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Verse 2]
The years perfecting a stance
Of measured cool fade into insignificance
The moment one starts to understand
What on Earth does it profit a man?
[Chorus]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Post-Chorus]
For something special, somehow new
Someone saying, "I love you"
Baby, I'm waiting for that red letter day
[Bridge]
You can sneer or disappear behind a veneer of self-control
But for all of those who don't fit in
Who follow their instincts and are told they sin
This is a prayer for a different way
[Chorus]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Post-Chorus]
Like Christmas morning when you're a kid
Admit you love me and you always did
Baby, I'm hoping for that red letter day today
Go to work and take your calls
Hang the fruits of your labour on the walls
Such precision and care
What does it matter if there's no one here to share?
The flowers in the garden, the wine
The Waiting for Godot and so much modern time?
[Chorus]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Verse 2]
The years perfecting a stance
Of measured cool fade into insignificance
The moment one starts to understand
What on Earth does it profit a man?
[Chorus]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Post-Chorus]
For something special, somehow new
Someone saying, "I love you"
Baby, I'm waiting for that red letter day
[Bridge]
You can sneer or disappear behind a veneer of self-control
But for all of those who don't fit in
Who follow their instincts and are told they sin
This is a prayer for a different way
[Chorus]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Post-Chorus]
Like Christmas morning when you're a kid
Admit you love me and you always did
Baby, I'm hoping for that red letter day today
more tracks from the album
Bilingual: Further Listening 1995 – 1997
- The Calm Before The Storm
- Somewhere (Extended Mix)
- The Survivors
- How I Learned to Hate Rock ‘n’ Roll
- Delusions of Grandeur
- Betrayed
- Disco Potential
- Saturday Night Forever
- In the Night (1995)
- A Red Letter Day
- Discoteca (Single Version)
- A Red Letter Day (Expanded Single Version)
- Up Against It
- Se a Vida É (That’s the Way Life Is)
- Before
- The Truck-Driver and His Mate
- Metamorphosis
- Paninaro ’95
- To Step Aside
- It Always Comes as a Surprise
- Single-Bilingual
- Electricity
- View From Your Balcony
- Hit and Miss
- Discoteca
- Discoteca (New Version)
- The Boy Who Couldn’t Keep His Clothes On (International Club Mix)
From the albums
- Bilingual (1996)
- Bilingual: Further Listening 1995 – 1997 (2001)
- PopArt: The Hits (2003)
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