Released: September 2, 1996
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Chris Porter Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
By the cathedral, into the sun
Pilgrims are singing, their journey done
I look at my short life and think
Of all the champagne that I drink
With all the faces that I know
And how much further can one go?
[Chorus]
And if I decide to step aside
I will try to reply to the feelings I hide
[Verse 2]
I look from my window, down to the square
At workers still queueing patiently there
For market forces to provide
What history's so far denied
For a different kind of fate
Than to labour long and always wait
[Chorus]
And if I decide to step aside
I will try to return to the person inside
[Bridge]
Will I always need you?
Would you want me to?
Can you love me for good
The way you thought you could?
[Verse 3]
Or will Spring bring rain and Summer burn?
Will tears at last precede the turn
From Summer warmth to sudden cold
As certainly as growing old?
[Chorus]
And if I decide to step aside
I will try to forget all the tears I'll have cried
By the cathedral, into the sun
Pilgrims are singing, their journey done
I look at my short life and think
Of all the champagne that I drink
With all the faces that I know
And how much further can one go?
[Chorus]
And if I decide to step aside
I will try to reply to the feelings I hide
[Verse 2]
I look from my window, down to the square
At workers still queueing patiently there
For market forces to provide
What history's so far denied
For a different kind of fate
Than to labour long and always wait
[Chorus]
And if I decide to step aside
I will try to return to the person inside
[Bridge]
Will I always need you?
Would you want me to?
Can you love me for good
The way you thought you could?
[Verse 3]
Or will Spring bring rain and Summer burn?
Will tears at last precede the turn
From Summer warmth to sudden cold
As certainly as growing old?
[Chorus]
And if I decide to step aside
I will try to forget all the tears I'll have cried
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