Released: September 2, 1996
Featuring: Sylvia Mason-James
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: K-Klass Pet Shop Boys
[Intro: Chris Lowe]
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
Please allow me to try and explain
I'm living proof that man can change
I knew what I wanted, I knew how to get it
It didn't make it happy so I started again
What I wanted to be was a family man
But nature had some alternative plans
So I did without the lot put emotion on hold
And hoped my instincts would do what they were told
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant, Sylvia Mason-James]
But every now and then and often at night
A particular feeling would surface in spite
Of what I told myself and tried to deny
I kept on asking the question: why?
Why, why, why?
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know
[Post-Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James, Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe]
You grow up and experience this
A total metamorphosis
It's all about change
It's a metamorphosis
[Verse 3: Neil Tennant]
With time and age, I had to change
'Cause my behaviour was getting strange
People on the street caught my eye
And I began to think I might be their kind of guy
The long-term suppression of an adolescent urge
Was in retreat and I was on the verge
Of falling in love or having fun
Time was running out, something had to be done
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
I wanna know, yeah
Tell me, what's the reason?
[Verse 4: Neil Tennant, Neil Tenannt & Chris Lowe]
Where was I? Laying down the law
Dancing with the others out on the floor
Music and smoke, what did it mean?
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream
I had what I wanted, madly in love
Nothing else mattered this was enough
Questions were answered which used to perplex
In particular those about the big S-E-X
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah (Sex)
I wanna know (Sex)
I wanna know, yeah
Tell me what's the reason (Sex)
Tell me what's the reason
[Post-Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James, Chris Lowe]
You grow up and experience this
A total metamorphosis
It's all about love
It's a metamorphosis
[Verse 5: Neil Tennant, Neil Tenannt & Chris Lowe]
Dreaming is easy, life is tough, I got the picture
The most important thing is not to end up bitter
'Cause when you start to feel increasingly forlorner
Woomph! Love comes right around the corner
It may not last, but here am I
Once a caterpillar now a butterfly
It can seem strange, but when you reminisce
It's all about change, it's a metamorphosis
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
[Post-Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James, Chris Lowe]
It's all about love
It's a metamorphosis
You grow up and experience this
A total metamorphosis
It's all about change
It's a metamorphosis
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
[Post-Chorus: Chris Lowe]
It's all about change
It's a metamorphosis
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
[Post-Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It's all about love
It's a metamorphosis
[Outro: Chris Lowe]
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
Please allow me to try and explain
I'm living proof that man can change
I knew what I wanted, I knew how to get it
It didn't make it happy so I started again
What I wanted to be was a family man
But nature had some alternative plans
So I did without the lot put emotion on hold
And hoped my instincts would do what they were told
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant, Sylvia Mason-James]
But every now and then and often at night
A particular feeling would surface in spite
Of what I told myself and tried to deny
I kept on asking the question: why?
Why, why, why?
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know
[Post-Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James, Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe]
You grow up and experience this
A total metamorphosis
It's all about change
It's a metamorphosis
[Verse 3: Neil Tennant]
With time and age, I had to change
'Cause my behaviour was getting strange
People on the street caught my eye
And I began to think I might be their kind of guy
The long-term suppression of an adolescent urge
Was in retreat and I was on the verge
Of falling in love or having fun
Time was running out, something had to be done
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
I wanna know, yeah
Tell me, what's the reason?
[Verse 4: Neil Tennant, Neil Tenannt & Chris Lowe]
Where was I? Laying down the law
Dancing with the others out on the floor
Music and smoke, what did it mean?
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream
I had what I wanted, madly in love
Nothing else mattered this was enough
Questions were answered which used to perplex
In particular those about the big S-E-X
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah (Sex)
I wanna know (Sex)
I wanna know, yeah
Tell me what's the reason (Sex)
Tell me what's the reason
[Post-Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James, Chris Lowe]
You grow up and experience this
A total metamorphosis
It's all about love
It's a metamorphosis
[Verse 5: Neil Tennant, Neil Tenannt & Chris Lowe]
Dreaming is easy, life is tough, I got the picture
The most important thing is not to end up bitter
'Cause when you start to feel increasingly forlorner
Woomph! Love comes right around the corner
It may not last, but here am I
Once a caterpillar now a butterfly
It can seem strange, but when you reminisce
It's all about change, it's a metamorphosis
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
[Post-Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James, Chris Lowe]
It's all about love
It's a metamorphosis
You grow up and experience this
A total metamorphosis
It's all about change
It's a metamorphosis
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
[Post-Chorus: Chris Lowe]
It's all about change
It's a metamorphosis
[Chorus: Sylvia Mason-James]
I wanna know, yeah
I wanna know
[Post-Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It's all about love
It's a metamorphosis
[Outro: Chris Lowe]
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
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