Released: October 11, 1999
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Craig Armstrong Pet Shop Boys
[Chorus]
Footsteps in the dark
Only love will break your heart
Footsteps
Footsteps
[Verse 1]
Whenever trouble comes around
Or lonely nights lead underground
And far in the dark
Abandoned cars suddenly start up
An anxious sound
As long as I hear your footsteps
In the dark
That's all I need
[Chorus]
Footsteps in the dark
Only love will break your heart
Footsteps
Footsteps
[Verse 2]
When loneliness induces fear
Like waves against a ramshackle pier
When thunder and rain
Scar the windowpane once again
I want you near
As long as I hear your footsteps
In the dark
That's all I need
[Interlude]
I'm longing to see you
I want you, I need you
[Bridge]
Like a child who feels afraid
Of the dark at night
Hoping to hear a gentle touch
Turning on a welcome light
As long as I hear your footsteps
In the dark
That's all I need
As long as I hear your footsteps
In the dark
That's all I need
[Chorus]
Footsteps in the dark
Only love will break your heart
Footsteps
Footsteps
Footsteps in the dark
Only love will break your heart
Footsteps
Footsteps
Footsteps
Footsteps in the dark
Only love will break your heart
Footsteps
Footsteps
[Verse 1]
Whenever trouble comes around
Or lonely nights lead underground
And far in the dark
Abandoned cars suddenly start up
An anxious sound
As long as I hear your footsteps
In the dark
That's all I need
[Chorus]
Footsteps in the dark
Only love will break your heart
Footsteps
Footsteps
[Verse 2]
When loneliness induces fear
Like waves against a ramshackle pier
When thunder and rain
Scar the windowpane once again
I want you near
As long as I hear your footsteps
In the dark
That's all I need
[Interlude]
I'm longing to see you
I want you, I need you
[Bridge]
Like a child who feels afraid
Of the dark at night
Hoping to hear a gentle touch
Turning on a welcome light
As long as I hear your footsteps
In the dark
That's all I need
As long as I hear your footsteps
In the dark
That's all I need
[Chorus]
Footsteps in the dark
Only love will break your heart
Footsteps
Footsteps
Footsteps in the dark
Only love will break your heart
Footsteps
Footsteps
Footsteps
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Nightlife: Further Listening 1996 – 2000
- In Denial
- Closer to Heaven
- It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas (Fan Club Mix)
- Nightlife
- Positive Role Model
- For All of Us (Demo)
- Casting a Shadow
- Paris City Boy (Full French)
- Believe / Song for Guy
- Vampires (Demo)
- For All of Us
- Somebody Else’s Business (Extended Mix)
- I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Any More (The PSB Extension)
- Call Me Old-Fashioned (Demo)
- Playing in the Streets
- Tall Thin Man
- Radiophonic
- You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk
- New York City Boy
- Boy Strange
- Somebody Else’s Business
- Friendly Fire
- The Ghost of Myself
- Footsteps
- Sail Away
- Silver Age
- Screaming
- For Your Own Good
- The Only One
- Happiness is an Option
- Lies
- I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Anymore
- Vampires
- Radiophonic (Demo)
From the albums
- Nightlife (1999)
- Nightlife: Further Listening 1996 – 2000 (2017)
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