Released: October 11, 1999
Songwriter: Neil Tennant Chris Lowe
Producer: Craig Armstrong Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
What a performance tonight
Should I react or turn off the light?
Looks like you're picking a fight
In a blurring of wrong and right
But how your mood changes
You're a devil, now an angel
Suddenly subtle and solemn and silent as a monk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Verse 2]
It's better than nothing, I suppose
Some doors have opened, others closed
But I couldn't see you exposed
To the horrors behind some of those
Somebody said, "Listen
Don't you know what you're missing?
You should be kissing him instead of dissing him like
A punk"
But you only tell me you love me when you're drunk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Bridge]
All of my friends keep asking me
"Why? Oh, why
Do you not say goodbye?
If you don't even try
You'll be sunk"
'Cause you only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Verse 3]
What's the meaning
When you speak with so much feeling?
Is it over when you're sober?
Is it junk?
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
What a performance tonight
Should I react or turn off the light?
Looks like you're picking a fight
In a blurring of wrong and right
But how your mood changes
You're a devil, now an angel
Suddenly subtle and solemn and silent as a monk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Verse 2]
It's better than nothing, I suppose
Some doors have opened, others closed
But I couldn't see you exposed
To the horrors behind some of those
Somebody said, "Listen
Don't you know what you're missing?
You should be kissing him instead of dissing him like
A punk"
But you only tell me you love me when you're drunk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Bridge]
All of my friends keep asking me
"Why? Oh, why
Do you not say goodbye?
If you don't even try
You'll be sunk"
'Cause you only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Verse 3]
What's the meaning
When you speak with so much feeling?
Is it over when you're sober?
Is it junk?
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
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
- Nightlife (1999)
- PopArt: The Hits (2003)
- PopArt (The Videos) (2003)
- Nightlife: Further Listening 1996 – 2000 (2017)
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