Released: July 7, 1997
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Danny Tenaglia Pet Shop Boys
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
So far away from home
So free and so alone
His head up in the clouds
His body in the crowds
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
To raise above the pain
To prove them all wrong again
To shake away at last
The secret in his past
He is exactly where he wants to be
In a world of his own
[Interlude]
[Verse 3: Neil Tennant]
His shirt falls to the floor
He's taking off some more
The crowd all love the show
Just how far will he go?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy, the boy
[Spoken Interlude: Vanessa Ichak]
Yo Louis!
Oh no you don't!
You ain't dancin' for all these men
I thought you said you quit that
You told me you was goin' to your mother's
You get down from there, right now, all right?
Right now!
Where are your clothes at?
God it's hot in here!
Honey you can stay here, but don't bother home along tonight
Your clothes are going out the window
All your posse are gonna know tomorrow
I'll tell your mother
Oh no you don't, you ain't dancin' for all these men
It's over!
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy, the boy
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
So far away from home
So free and so alone
His head up in the clouds
His body in the crowds
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
To raise above the pain
To prove them all wrong again
To shake away at last
The secret in his past
He is exactly where he wants to be
In a world of his own
[Interlude]
[Verse 3: Neil Tennant]
His shirt falls to the floor
He's taking off some more
The crowd all love the show
Just how far will he go?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy, the boy
[Spoken Interlude: Vanessa Ichak]
Yo Louis!
Oh no you don't!
You ain't dancin' for all these men
I thought you said you quit that
You told me you was goin' to your mother's
You get down from there, right now, all right?
Right now!
Where are your clothes at?
God it's hot in here!
Honey you can stay here, but don't bother home along tonight
Your clothes are going out the window
All your posse are gonna know tomorrow
I'll tell your mother
Oh no you don't, you ain't dancin' for all these men
It's over!
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on
Loved dancing
All night long
The boy, the boy
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 album
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