Released: October 12, 2012
Songwriter: Neil Tennant Chris Lowe
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
Here they sit talking rot
Saddam Hussein and Pol Pot
Mao Tse Tung bares his gnashers
At Idi Amin's and Emperor Bokassa's
[Verse 2]
There he is, Joseph Stalin
Thick as thieves with that old bore Lenin
Look at the two of them putting the boot in
Ranting and raving and bitching 'bout Putin
[Chorus 1]
Hell, hello
It's hell in here
Evil is a bore with a big idea
Hell, hello
What's not to fear?
Love death not life
And make it hell in here
[Verse 3]
It's a real no brainer, the blood just oozes
When Vlad the Impaler meets the Ceaucescus
It's getting mighty crowded and hot as wasabi
But they'll have to make room for Robert Mugabe
[Verse 4]
Caligula spits stale panini
At Adolf Hitler and Mussolini
Napoleon casts a withering sneer
At Kim Il-Sung from North Korea
[Chorus 2]
Hell, hello
It's hell in here
Evil is a bore with a big idea
Hell, hello
What's not to fear?
Evil is a bore
Which makes it hell in here
[Verse 5]
Serial killers, begging your pardon
Are beyond the pale and so's Osama Bin Laden
Heinrich Himmler's doing his best
To avoid the attentions of Fred West
Ivan the Terrible isn't terribly nice
When Gilles de Rais seeks his advice
[Chorus 3]
Hell, hello
What's not to fear?
Evil is a bore
Which makes it hell in here
It's hell in here
It's hell in here
[Chorus 4]
Hell, hello
The big idea
Love death not life
And make it hell in here
It's hell in here
Hell in here
Here they sit talking rot
Saddam Hussein and Pol Pot
Mao Tse Tung bares his gnashers
At Idi Amin's and Emperor Bokassa's
[Verse 2]
There he is, Joseph Stalin
Thick as thieves with that old bore Lenin
Look at the two of them putting the boot in
Ranting and raving and bitching 'bout Putin
[Chorus 1]
Hell, hello
It's hell in here
Evil is a bore with a big idea
Hell, hello
What's not to fear?
Love death not life
And make it hell in here
[Verse 3]
It's a real no brainer, the blood just oozes
When Vlad the Impaler meets the Ceaucescus
It's getting mighty crowded and hot as wasabi
But they'll have to make room for Robert Mugabe
[Verse 4]
Caligula spits stale panini
At Adolf Hitler and Mussolini
Napoleon casts a withering sneer
At Kim Il-Sung from North Korea
[Chorus 2]
Hell, hello
It's hell in here
Evil is a bore with a big idea
Hell, hello
What's not to fear?
Evil is a bore
Which makes it hell in here
[Verse 5]
Serial killers, begging your pardon
Are beyond the pale and so's Osama Bin Laden
Heinrich Himmler's doing his best
To avoid the attentions of Fred West
Ivan the Terrible isn't terribly nice
When Gilles de Rais seeks his advice
[Chorus 3]
Hell, hello
What's not to fear?
Evil is a bore
Which makes it hell in here
It's hell in here
It's hell in here
[Chorus 4]
Hell, hello
The big idea
Love death not life
And make it hell in here
It's hell in here
Hell in here
more tracks from the album
Elysium: Further Listening 2011 – 2012
- Memory Of The Future (New Single Mix)
- Listening
- Give It a Go
- Winner
- The Way Through the Woods (Long Version)
- Ego Music
- She Pops (Demo)
- Vocal (Demo)
- Leaving (Side By Side Remix)
- Leaving (Freedom Remix)
- In Slow Motion (Demo)
- Requiem in Denim and Leopardskin
- Hell
- Leaving
- A Face Like That
- Your Early Stuff
- Hold On
- Everything Means Something
- I Started a Joke
- In His Imagination
- Inside
- Invisible
- Breathing Space
- Memory of the Future
- Leaving (Believe in PSB 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