Released: September 22, 1986
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
Lawrence in the desert
How was he to know
Under so much pressure
From the men back home?
[Pre-Chorus]
Play with fire, you must be mad
Are you only Jack the Lad?
Play with guns, you must be bad
Or hiding something, Jack
[Verse 2]
Telling lies in public
Breaking codes at home
Underneath the blankets
For another role
[Pre-Chorus]
Tell these lies, you must be mad
Are you only Jack the Lad?
To feast with panthers every night
You must be careful, Jack!
[Chorus]
Don't let them try to restrain you
This is your only religion
Don't let them try to detain you
You're not the only fool
[Post-Chorus]
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
Will fall
[Verse 3]
Philby in the desert
Looking for a phone
Waiting on the pavement
For a call from home
[Pre-Chorus]
Play with fire, you must be mad
Are you only Jack the Lad?
Turn your back on friends you had
They must have hurt you, Jack!
[Chorus]
Don't let them try to restrain you
This is your only religion
Don't let them try to detain you
You're not the only fool
[Post-Chorus]
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
[Chorus]
Don't let them try to restrain you
This is your only religion
Don't let them try to detain you
You're not the only fool
[Post-Chorus]
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
Will fall
Lawrence in the desert
How was he to know
Under so much pressure
From the men back home?
[Pre-Chorus]
Play with fire, you must be mad
Are you only Jack the Lad?
Play with guns, you must be bad
Or hiding something, Jack
[Verse 2]
Telling lies in public
Breaking codes at home
Underneath the blankets
For another role
[Pre-Chorus]
Tell these lies, you must be mad
Are you only Jack the Lad?
To feast with panthers every night
You must be careful, Jack!
[Chorus]
Don't let them try to restrain you
This is your only religion
Don't let them try to detain you
You're not the only fool
[Post-Chorus]
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
Will fall
[Verse 3]
Philby in the desert
Looking for a phone
Waiting on the pavement
For a call from home
[Pre-Chorus]
Play with fire, you must be mad
Are you only Jack the Lad?
Turn your back on friends you had
They must have hurt you, Jack!
[Chorus]
Don't let them try to restrain you
This is your only religion
Don't let them try to detain you
You're not the only fool
[Post-Chorus]
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
[Chorus]
Don't let them try to restrain you
This is your only religion
Don't let them try to detain you
You're not the only fool
[Post-Chorus]
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
We all fall, even Jack the Lad
Will fall
more tracks from the album
Please: Further Listening 1984 – 1986
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
- I Want a Lover
- Suburbia
- Paninaro (Italian Remix) [12" Version]
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money) [Original 12'’ Mix]
- Two Divided by Zero
- Why Don’t We Live Together?
- A Man Could Get Arrested
- Why Don’t We Live Together? [Original New York Mix]
- West End Girls (Dance Mix) [12" Version]
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) [Reprise]
- Tonight Is Forever
- Suburbia (The Full Horror)
- West End Girls
- Later Tonight
- Love Comes Quickly
- That’s My Impression (Disco Mix)
- Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix)
- A Man Could Get Arrested [12" Version]
- Violence
- Jack the Lad
- Was That What It Was?
- In the Night
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) [Full Length Original 7" Version]
From the albums
- Alternative (1995)
- Please: Further Listening 1984 – 1986 (2001)
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
- All Over the World (This Is A Dub)
- After All
- Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
- So Hard
- Breathing Space
- Radiophonic
- Memory of the Future