Released: April 12, 2019
Songwriter: Michael Nyman Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: David Wooley Stuart Price
[Verse 1]
I've been taking my time for a long time
Putting my feet up a lot
Speaking English as a foreign language
Any words that I haven't forgot
I've been thinking how I can't be bothered
To wash the dishes or remake the bed
What's the point when I could doss instead?
[Verse 2]
When you walked out you did me a favour
You made me see reality
That love is a bourgeois construct
It's a blatant fallacy
You won't see me with a bunch of roses
Promising fidelity
Love doesn't mean a thing to me
[Chorus]
Talking tough and feeling bitter
But better now it's clear to me
That love is a bourgeois construct
So I've given up the bourgeoisie
[Interlude]
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
Let me hear you!
[Verse 3]
While the bankers all get their bonuses
I'll just get along with what I've got
Watching the weeds in the garden
Putting my feet up a lot
I'll explore the outer limits of boredom
Moaning periodically
Just a full-time lonely layabout, that's me
[Verse 4]
When you walked out you did me a favour
It's absolutely clear to me
That love is a bourgeois construct
Just like they said at university
I'll be taking my time for a long time
With all the schadenfreude it's cost
Calculating what you've lost
[Verse 5]
Now I'm digging through my student paperbacks
Flicking through Karl Marx again
Searching for the soul of England
Drinking tea like Tony Benn
Love is just a bourgeois construct
So I'm giving up on the bourgeoisie
Until you come back to me
[Interlude]
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
[Chorus]
Talking tough and feeling bitter
But better now it's clear to me
That love is a bourgeois construct
So I've given up the bourgeoisie
I've been taking my time for a long time
Putting my feet up a lot
Speaking English as a foreign language
Any words that I haven't forgot
I've been thinking how I can't be bothered
To wash the dishes or remake the bed
What's the point when I could doss instead?
[Verse 2]
When you walked out you did me a favour
You made me see reality
That love is a bourgeois construct
It's a blatant fallacy
You won't see me with a bunch of roses
Promising fidelity
Love doesn't mean a thing to me
[Chorus]
Talking tough and feeling bitter
But better now it's clear to me
That love is a bourgeois construct
So I've given up the bourgeoisie
[Interlude]
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
Let me hear you!
[Verse 3]
While the bankers all get their bonuses
I'll just get along with what I've got
Watching the weeds in the garden
Putting my feet up a lot
I'll explore the outer limits of boredom
Moaning periodically
Just a full-time lonely layabout, that's me
[Verse 4]
When you walked out you did me a favour
It's absolutely clear to me
That love is a bourgeois construct
Just like they said at university
I'll be taking my time for a long time
With all the schadenfreude it's cost
Calculating what you've lost
[Verse 5]
Now I'm digging through my student paperbacks
Flicking through Karl Marx again
Searching for the soul of England
Drinking tea like Tony Benn
Love is just a bourgeois construct
So I'm giving up on the bourgeoisie
Until you come back to me
[Interlude]
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
Bourgeois bourgeoisie
[Chorus]
Talking tough and feeling bitter
But better now it's clear to me
That love is a bourgeois construct
So I've given up the bourgeoisie
more tracks from the album
Inner Sanctum (Live At The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Inner Sanctum (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Always On My Mind (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Domino Dancing (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Heart / Go West (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Left to My Own Devices (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Vocal / The Sodom and Gomorrah Show (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Home and Dry / The Enigma (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- West End Girls (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- The Dictator Decides / Inside a Dream (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Love etc. (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Love Comes Quickly (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Se A Vida É (That’s The Way Life Is) [Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018]
- New York City Boy (Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Love is Bourgeois Construct (Live at the Royal Opera House, 2018)
- The Pop Kids / In The Night / Burn (Live at the Royal Opera House, 2018)
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) [Live at the Royal Opera House, 2018]
- The Pop Kids (Reprise) [Live at The Royal Opera House, 2018]
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