Released: March 24, 1986
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Stephen Hague
[Verse 1]
The sons and brothers
Fighting for another cause
Anything to give their lives some meaning
Busy with their guns and dreaming
Far away from here
Said they would act in self-defence
[Verse 2]
And all the others
Running 'round so hot and bothered
Anything to give their lives some meaning
In the evening
Running around with guns and
Said they would act in self-defence
With violence
[Chorus]
Violence
Violence
Violence
Violence breeds violence
Violence breeds
[Verse 3]
The son and brother
When he gets home
He gives someone some love
And mutters
"Woman, you'll never understand
I did what I said in self-defence
With violence"
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
Violence breeds violence
Violence breeds violence
Violence breeds violence
The sons and brothers
Fighting for another cause
Anything to give their lives some meaning
Busy with their guns and dreaming
Far away from here
Said they would act in self-defence
[Verse 2]
And all the others
Running 'round so hot and bothered
Anything to give their lives some meaning
In the evening
Running around with guns and
Said they would act in self-defence
With violence
[Chorus]
Violence
Violence
Violence
Violence breeds violence
Violence breeds
[Verse 3]
The son and brother
When he gets home
He gives someone some love
And mutters
"Woman, you'll never understand
I did what I said in self-defence
With violence"
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
Violence breeds violence
Violence breeds violence
Violence breeds violence
- Please (1986)
- Please: Further Listening 1984 – 1986 (2001)
- 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