Released: April 22, 1996
Songwriter: Neil Tennant Chris Lowe
Producer: Pet Shop Boys Danny Tenaglia
[Verse 1]
The telephone's not answered
So many times you'll call
For many different reasons
So many tears will fall
[Chorus]
Before you find your love
Before it comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for
[Verse 2]
So many fears will haunt you
Deny them or regret
Some men will make you want to
And you will not forget
[Chorus]
Before you find your love
Before it comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for
[Post-Chorus]
There's a story of a man who loved too much
He ended up inside a prison cell
You've got to want to give to get it
Or you could land up in the same suspicious hell
It's happened before (before, before, before)
It's happened before (before, before)
[Verse 3]
Coincidence and patience
Will mend this fatal flaw
Though it may seem a long wait
Others have been here
[Chorus]
Before you find your love
Before it comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for
[Post-Chorus]
One day when the phone starts ringing
You'll answer to the words you're longing for
No tears, no trade, no prison cell
Whatever you need, he will return more
It's happened before (before, before, before)
It's happened before (before, before)
[Chorus]
You find your love
Before it comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for
You find your love
Before it comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for
[Outro]
It's happened before (before, before, before)
It's happened before (before, before)
The telephone's not answered
So many times you'll call
For many different reasons
So many tears will fall
[Chorus]
Before you find your love
Before it comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for
[Verse 2]
So many fears will haunt you
Deny them or regret
Some men will make you want to
And you will not forget
[Chorus]
Before you find your love
Before it comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for
[Post-Chorus]
There's a story of a man who loved too much
He ended up inside a prison cell
You've got to want to give to get it
Or you could land up in the same suspicious hell
It's happened before (before, before, before)
It's happened before (before, before)
[Verse 3]
Coincidence and patience
Will mend this fatal flaw
Though it may seem a long wait
Others have been here
[Chorus]
Before you find your love
Before it comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for
[Post-Chorus]
One day when the phone starts ringing
You'll answer to the words you're longing for
No tears, no trade, no prison cell
Whatever you need, he will return more
It's happened before (before, before, before)
It's happened before (before, before)
[Chorus]
You find your love
Before it comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for
You find your love
Before it comes knocking at your door
Before you know for sure
This is what you were waiting for
[Outro]
It's happened before (before, before, before)
It's happened before (before, before)
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- 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