Released: September 22, 1986
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1: Chris Lowe]
Passion and love and sex and money
Violence, religion, injustice, death
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 2: Chris Lowe]
Girls, boys, art, pleasure
Girls, boys, art, pleasure
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 3: Chris Lowe]
Food, cars, travel
Food, cars, travel, travel
New York, New York, New York
New York
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 4: Chris Lowe]
Armani, Armani, ah-ah-Armani
Versace, cinque
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 5: Chris Lowe]
Armani, Armani, ah-ah-Armani
Versace, cinque
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Interlude]
[Bridge 1: Chris Lowe]
"I don't like country-and-western
I don't like rock music
I don't like, I don't like rockabilly or rock 'n' roll particularly
Don't like much really, do I?
But what I do like I love passionately"
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Interlude]
[Bridge 2: Chris Lowe]
You, you're my lover
You're my hope, you're my dreams, my life
My passion, my love, my sex, my money
Violence, religion, injustice and death
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Interlude]
[Outro: Chris Lowe & Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
"Don't like much really, do I?"
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
"But what I do like I love passionately"
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Passion and love and sex and money
Violence, religion, injustice, death
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 2: Chris Lowe]
Girls, boys, art, pleasure
Girls, boys, art, pleasure
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 3: Chris Lowe]
Food, cars, travel
Food, cars, travel, travel
New York, New York, New York
New York
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 4: Chris Lowe]
Armani, Armani, ah-ah-Armani
Versace, cinque
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 5: Chris Lowe]
Armani, Armani, ah-ah-Armani
Versace, cinque
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Interlude]
[Bridge 1: Chris Lowe]
"I don't like country-and-western
I don't like rock music
I don't like, I don't like rockabilly or rock 'n' roll particularly
Don't like much really, do I?
But what I do like I love passionately"
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Interlude]
[Bridge 2: Chris Lowe]
You, you're my lover
You're my hope, you're my dreams, my life
My passion, my love, my sex, my money
Violence, religion, injustice and death
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
[Interlude]
[Outro: Chris Lowe & Neil Tennant]
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
"Don't like much really, do I?"
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
"But what I do like I love passionately"
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
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
- Disco (1986)
- 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
- 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