Released: October 14, 1991
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys Brothers in Rhythm
[Intro]
"Attention, attention...
Trente-neuf, quarante"
[Verse 1]
Imagine a war which everyone won
Permanent holiday in endless sun
Peace without wisdom, one steals to achieve
Relentlessly pretending to believe
Attitudes are materialistic
Positive or frankly realistic
Which is terribly old-fashioned, isn't it?
Or isn't it?
[Chorus]
(DJ culture)
Dance with me
(DJ culture)
Let's pretend
Living in a satellite fantasy
Waiting for the night to end
(DJ, D...)
[Verse 2]
Let's pretend we won a war
Like a football match, ten-nil the score
Anything's possible, we're on the same side
Or otherwise on trial for our lives
I've been around the world for a number of reasons
I've seen it all, the change of seasons
And I, my lord, may I say nothing?
[Chorus]
(DJ culture)
Dance with me
(DJ culture)
Let's pretend
Living in a satellite fantasy
Waiting for the night to end
(DJ culture)
[Chorus]
(DJ culture)
Dance with me
(DJ culture)
Let's pretend
Living in a satellite fantasy
Wondering who's your friend
(DJ culture)
[Bridge]
Now, as a matter of pride
Indulge yourself, your every mood
No feast days or fast days or days of abstinence intrude
[Verse 3]
Consider for a minute
Who you are, what you'd like to change
Never mind the scars
Bury the past, empty the shelf
Decide it's time to reinvent yourself
Like Liz before Betty, she after Sean
Suddenly you're missing, then you're reborn
And I, my lord, may I say nothing?
[Chorus]
(DJ culture)
"Une fois!"
(DJ culture)
"Deux fois!"
Living in a satellite fantasy
Waiting for the night to end
(DJ culture)
[Chorus]
(DJ culture)
Dance with me
(DJ culture)
Let's pretend
Living in a satellite fantasy
Wondering who's your friend
(DJ culture)
[Outro]
(DJ culture, DJ culture)
And I, my lord, may I say nothing?
Living in a satellite fantasy
Waiting for the night to end
(DJ culture)
"Attention, attention...
Trente-neuf, quarante"
[Verse 1]
Imagine a war which everyone won
Permanent holiday in endless sun
Peace without wisdom, one steals to achieve
Relentlessly pretending to believe
Attitudes are materialistic
Positive or frankly realistic
Which is terribly old-fashioned, isn't it?
Or isn't it?
[Chorus]
(DJ culture)
Dance with me
(DJ culture)
Let's pretend
Living in a satellite fantasy
Waiting for the night to end
(DJ, D...)
[Verse 2]
Let's pretend we won a war
Like a football match, ten-nil the score
Anything's possible, we're on the same side
Or otherwise on trial for our lives
I've been around the world for a number of reasons
I've seen it all, the change of seasons
And I, my lord, may I say nothing?
[Chorus]
(DJ culture)
Dance with me
(DJ culture)
Let's pretend
Living in a satellite fantasy
Waiting for the night to end
(DJ culture)
[Chorus]
(DJ culture)
Dance with me
(DJ culture)
Let's pretend
Living in a satellite fantasy
Wondering who's your friend
(DJ culture)
[Bridge]
Now, as a matter of pride
Indulge yourself, your every mood
No feast days or fast days or days of abstinence intrude
[Verse 3]
Consider for a minute
Who you are, what you'd like to change
Never mind the scars
Bury the past, empty the shelf
Decide it's time to reinvent yourself
Like Liz before Betty, she after Sean
Suddenly you're missing, then you're reborn
And I, my lord, may I say nothing?
[Chorus]
(DJ culture)
"Une fois!"
(DJ culture)
"Deux fois!"
Living in a satellite fantasy
Waiting for the night to end
(DJ culture)
[Chorus]
(DJ culture)
Dance with me
(DJ culture)
Let's pretend
Living in a satellite fantasy
Wondering who's your friend
(DJ culture)
[Outro]
(DJ culture, DJ culture)
And I, my lord, may I say nothing?
Living in a satellite fantasy
Waiting for the night to end
(DJ culture)
more tracks from the album
PopArt: The Hits
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
- New York City Boy (US Radio Edit)
- Miracles
- Heart
- I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing [7" Version]
- Jealousy [7" Version]
- I Get Along [Radio Edit]
- A Red Letter Day
- Rent [7" Version]
- Left to My Own Devices [7" Version]
- It’s Alright [7" Version]
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Single Version)
- Being Boring [7" Edit]
- Love Comes Quickly [7" Version]
- West End Girls [7"Version]
- Suburbia [Video Mix]
- Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)
- Liberation
- It’s a Sin
- Go West
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Somewhere
- Paninaro ’95
- Single-Bilingual
- Home and Dry [Radio Edit]
- Flamboyant
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Before
- Domino Dancing
- You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk
- Always On My Mind
- So Hard
- Se a Vida É (That’s the Way Life Is)
- DJ Culture
- I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Anymore [Radio Edit]
From the albums
- Discography (1991)
- Videography (The Singles Collection on Video) (1991)
- Behaviour: Further Listening 1990 – 1991 (2001)
- PopArt: The Hits (2003)
- PopArt (The Videos) (2003)
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