Released: September 2, 1996
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Intro: Rita Hayworth]
"What does it mean?"
"What are you doing in San Francisco?"
"Get out of here and take this cake with you"
"What does it mean?"
"What are you doing in San Francisco?"
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
I'm an artist, honey, you'll see me sometimes
Making crazy pictures out of music and rhymes
Costume changes performed with poise
Dancing in formation with a couple of boys
I take them on the road with my reel-to-reels
I'm an artist, honey, you know how that feels?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant & Rita Hayworth]
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
"What does it mean?"
It's all about wonder, the power to be
Like thunder expressing electricity
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
[Post-Chorus: Rita Hayworth & Neil Tennant]
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
Call it performance, call it art
I call it disaster if the tapes don't start
I've put all my life into live lip-sync
I'm an artist, honey, you gonna get me a drink?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's all about wonder, the power to be
Like thunder expressing electricity
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
[Post-Chorus: Rita Hayworth & Neil Tennant]
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
"What does it mean?"
"What are you doing in San Francisco?"
"Get out of here and take this cake with you"
"What does it mean?"
"What are you doing in San Francisco?"
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
I'm an artist, honey, you'll see me sometimes
Making crazy pictures out of music and rhymes
Costume changes performed with poise
Dancing in formation with a couple of boys
I take them on the road with my reel-to-reels
I'm an artist, honey, you know how that feels?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant & Rita Hayworth]
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
"What does it mean?"
It's all about wonder, the power to be
Like thunder expressing electricity
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
[Post-Chorus: Rita Hayworth & Neil Tennant]
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
Call it performance, call it art
I call it disaster if the tapes don't start
I've put all my life into live lip-sync
I'm an artist, honey, you gonna get me a drink?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's all about wonder, the power to be
Like thunder expressing electricity
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
[Post-Chorus: Rita Hayworth & Neil Tennant]
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
"What does it mean?"
Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
It's the greatest show with the best effects
Since Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
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)
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