Released: March 17, 1997
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
Go to work and take your calls
Hang the fruits of your labour on the walls
Such precision and care
What does it matter if there's no one here to share?
The flowers in the garden, the wine
The Waiting for Godot and so much modern time?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
The years perfecting a stance
Of measured cool fade into insignificance
The moment one starts to understand
What on Earth does it profit a man?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Post-Chorus 1: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
For somеthing special, somehow new
Somеone saying, I love you
Baby, I'm waiting for that red letter day
[Bridge: Neil Tennant]
You can sneer or disappear behind a veneer of self-control
But for all of those who don't fit in
Who follow their instincts and are told they sin
This is a prayer for a different way
[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Post-Chorus 2: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
Like Christmas morning when you're a kid
Admit you love me and you always did
Baby, I'm waiting for that red letter day
[Interlude: Neil Tennant]
I'm always waiting
I'm always waiting
Waiting
[Post-Chorus 1: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
For something special, somehow new
Someone saying, I love you
Baby, I'm hoping for that red letter day today
Go to work and take your calls
Hang the fruits of your labour on the walls
Such precision and care
What does it matter if there's no one here to share?
The flowers in the garden, the wine
The Waiting for Godot and so much modern time?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
The years perfecting a stance
Of measured cool fade into insignificance
The moment one starts to understand
What on Earth does it profit a man?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Post-Chorus 1: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
For somеthing special, somehow new
Somеone saying, I love you
Baby, I'm waiting for that red letter day
[Bridge: Neil Tennant]
You can sneer or disappear behind a veneer of self-control
But for all of those who don't fit in
Who follow their instincts and are told they sin
This is a prayer for a different way
[Chorus: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
All I want is what you want
I'm always waiting for a red letter day
[Post-Chorus 2: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
Like Christmas morning when you're a kid
Admit you love me and you always did
Baby, I'm waiting for that red letter day
[Interlude: Neil Tennant]
I'm always waiting
I'm always waiting
Waiting
[Post-Chorus 1: Neil Tennant, Barbara Tucker, Carole Sylvan & Karen Bernod]
For something special, somehow new
Someone saying, I love you
Baby, I'm hoping for that red letter day today
more tracks from the album
PopArt (The Videos)
- Home and Dry [Video Mix]
- Being Boring [7" Edit]
- Domino Dancing (7" Version)
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Single Version)
- So Hard (Extended Dance Mix)
- It’s Alright [7" Version]
- Left to My Own Devices [7" Version]
- Rent [7" Version]
- Was It Worth It? [Video Mix]
- West End Girls [7"Version]
- Suburbia [Video Mix]
- Go West [Ming’s Gone West (First and Second Movement) - Video Edit]
- London [Video Mix]
- Somewhere [Video Mix]
- A Red Letter Day [Single Version]
- Single-Bilingual [Video Mix]
- Se a Vida É (That’s the Way Life Is) [Video Mix]
- I Get Along/E-Mail
- I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Anymore [Radio Edit]
- How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously? [Single Version]
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) [Original 7'’ Version]
- Heart [Video Mix]
- So Hard
- You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk
- Domino Dancing
- Can You Forgive Her?
- Before [Single Edit]
- Paninaro ’95
- Love Comes Quickly
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Paninaro
- DJ Culture
- Always on My Mind [Video Mix]
- Jealousy [7" Version]
- New York City Boy [Radio Edit]
- I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing [7" Version]
- Go West [Video Mix]
- Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)
- Liberation
- It’s a Sin
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
From the album
- 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