Released: May 8, 2006
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
Somewhere out in the heart of suburbia
Flinching from the words that could almost murder her
Listen
It's the final day
[Chorus]
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
[Verse 2]
She's wearing plaid and jeans
Like a workman on the road
Hitching out west
With a personal stereo
Playing
"Lay, Lady, Lay"
[Chorus]
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
[Bridge]
In her heart
She's not even a renegade
From the start
She knew why she would not be saved
All her instincts
Lead a different way
[Verse 3]
In the pocket by her heart is a dog-eared Polaroid
A picture of a girl with her arm round a boy who went missing
The final day
[Chorus]
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
Whatever boys say
(I don't care what they say)
Girls don't cry
Whatever boys say
(I don't care what they say)
Girls don't cry
Somewhere out in the heart of suburbia
Flinching from the words that could almost murder her
Listen
It's the final day
[Chorus]
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
[Verse 2]
She's wearing plaid and jeans
Like a workman on the road
Hitching out west
With a personal stereo
Playing
"Lay, Lady, Lay"
[Chorus]
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
[Bridge]
In her heart
She's not even a renegade
From the start
She knew why she would not be saved
All her instincts
Lead a different way
[Verse 3]
In the pocket by her heart is a dog-eared Polaroid
A picture of a girl with her arm round a boy who went missing
The final day
[Chorus]
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
Whatever boys say
Girls don't cry
Whatever boys say
(I don't care what they say)
Girls don't cry
Whatever boys say
(I don't care what they say)
Girls don't cry
more tracks from the album
Fundamental: Further Listening 2005 – 2007
- Twentieth Century
- I’m With Stupid
- After the Event
- The Former Enfant Terrible
- A Certain ‘Je ne sais quoi’
- Ring Road (Demo)
- The Performance of My Life (Demo)
- One-Way Street (Demo)
- Dancing in the Dusk (Demo)
- Transfer
- The Sodom and Gomorrah Show (Original Demo)
- No Time For Tears (Orchestral Mix)
- God Willing (Original Full-Length Mix)
- Numb (Single Edit)
- Numb
- Integral (PSB Perfect Immaculate Mix)
- Psychological
- I Made My Excuses and Left
- Luna Park
- Girls Don’t Cry
- The Resurrectionist
- God Willing
- The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
- One Night
- Indefinite Leave to Remain
- Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
- Casanova in Hell
- Integral
- Minimal
- Integral (PSB Perfect Immaculate 7" Mix)
From the albums
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