Released: August 29, 1994
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
"Darling, you were wonderful, you really were quite good
I enjoyed that, though, of course, no one understood
A word of what was going on, they didn't have a clue
They couldn't understand your sense of humour like I do"
[Pre-Chorus]
"You're much too kind"
I smiled with murder on my mind
[Chorus]
Yesterday, when I was mad
And quite prepared to give up everything
Admitting I don't believe
In anyone's sincerity, and that's what's really got to me
[Verse 2]
"You have a certain quality, which really is unique
Expressionless, such irony, although your voice is weak
It doesn't really matter 'cause the music is so loud
Of course, it's all on tape, but no one will find out"
[Pre-Chorus]
You hated me too
But not as much as I hated you
[Chorus]
Yesterday, when I was mad
And quite prepared to give up everything
Admitting I don't believe
In anyone's sincerity, and that's what's really got to me
[Post-Chorus]
Then, when I was lonely
I thought again
And changed my mind
[Verse 3]
Then we posed for pictures with the competition winners
And argued about the hotel rooms, and where to go for dinner
And someone said: "It's fabulous you're still around today
You've both made such a little go a very long way"
[Chorus]
Yesterday, when I was mad
And quite prepared to give up everything
Admitting I don't believe
In anyone's sincerity, and that's what's really got to me
Yesterday, when I was mad
Admitting I don't believe
In anyone's sincerity, and that's what's really got to me
[Post-Chorus]
Then, when I was lonely
I thought again
And changed my mind
"Darling, you were wonderful, you really were quite good
I enjoyed that, though, of course, no one understood
A word of what was going on, they didn't have a clue
They couldn't understand your sense of humour like I do"
[Pre-Chorus]
"You're much too kind"
I smiled with murder on my mind
[Chorus]
Yesterday, when I was mad
And quite prepared to give up everything
Admitting I don't believe
In anyone's sincerity, and that's what's really got to me
[Verse 2]
"You have a certain quality, which really is unique
Expressionless, such irony, although your voice is weak
It doesn't really matter 'cause the music is so loud
Of course, it's all on tape, but no one will find out"
[Pre-Chorus]
You hated me too
But not as much as I hated you
[Chorus]
Yesterday, when I was mad
And quite prepared to give up everything
Admitting I don't believe
In anyone's sincerity, and that's what's really got to me
[Post-Chorus]
Then, when I was lonely
I thought again
And changed my mind
[Verse 3]
Then we posed for pictures with the competition winners
And argued about the hotel rooms, and where to go for dinner
And someone said: "It's fabulous you're still around today
You've both made such a little go a very long way"
[Chorus]
Yesterday, when I was mad
And quite prepared to give up everything
Admitting I don't believe
In anyone's sincerity, and that's what's really got to me
Yesterday, when I was mad
Admitting I don't believe
In anyone's sincerity, and that's what's really got to me
[Post-Chorus]
Then, when I was lonely
I thought again
And changed my mind
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
- Very: Further Listening 1992 – 1994 (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
- 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