Pet Shop Boys

Released: April 1, 2010

Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant

Producer: Stephen Hague

[Intro: Neil Tennant & (Helena Springs)]
(How far have you been?)
(How far have you been?)
West End girls
West End girls

[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
Sometimes you're better off dead
There's gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad, too unstable
Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
In a restaurant in a West End town
Call the police, there's a madman around
Running down underground to a dive bar
In a West End town

[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
West End girls

[Verse 2: Neil Tennant (& Helena Springs)]
Too many shadows, whispering voices
Faces on posters, too many choices
If, when, why, what?
How much have you got?
Have you got it, do you get it, if so, how often?
And which do you choose, a hard or soft option?
(How much do you need?)

[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
West End girls
West End girls

[Interlude: Helena Springs]
How much do you need?

[Verse 3: Neil Tennant & (Helena Springs)]
You can find a place that no one knows
Where money talks and streets are gold
Someone stands in every door
And if they speak they break the law
("We can work something out
"We can work something out")
Ask a question: blank faces
Read the news and turn the pages
Watch them play a different game
And no one knows your name
No one knows your name

[Verse 4: Neil Tennant (& Helena Springs)]
You've got a heart of glass or a heart of stone
Just you wait 'til I get you home
We've got no future, we've got no past
Here today, built to last
In every city, in every nation
From Lake Geneva to the Finland station
(How far have you been?)

[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
A West End town, a dead end world
East End boys, West End girls
West End girls
West End girls

[Outro: Neil Tennant ( & Helena Springs)]
West End girls
(How far have you been?)
Girls
East End boys
And West End girls
And West End girls
(...forever)
And West End girls
(How far have you been?)
East End boys
The West End girls
The West End boys
And West End girls
The West End girls
The West End boys
The West End girls
The West End girls, girls, girls, girls
The West End girls
And no one knows your name

Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic pop duo comprised of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Formed in London in 1981, they’ve released fourteen LPs–in addition to a myriad of theatrical, film, and ballet scores–and have charted forty-two UK Top 30 singles, four of them making it to number 1.

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