Released: May 31, 1993
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
Another night with open eyes
Too late to sleep, too soon to rise
You're short of breath, is it a heart attack?
Hot and feverish you face the fact
[Pre-Chorus]
You're in love, and it feels like shame
Because she's gone and made a fool of you in public again
You're in love, and it feels like pain
Because you know there's too much truth in everything she claims
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she wants you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Verse 2]
You drift into the strangest dreams
Of youthful follies and changing teams
Admit you're wrong, oh, no, not yet
Then you wake up and remember that you can't forget
[Pre-Chorus]
She's made you some kind of laughing stock
Because you dance to disco, and you don't like rock
She'd make fun of you, and even in bed
Said she was gonna go and get herself a real man instead
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Post-Chorus]
Or do you want revenge?
But that's childish, so childish!
(But that's childish, so childish!)
[Verse 3]
Remember when you were more easily led
Behind the cricket pavilion and the bicycle shed
Trembling as your dreams came true
You looked right into those blue eyes and knew
[Pre-Chorus]
It was love, and now you can't pretend
You've forgotten all the promises of that first friend
It's bad enough, she knows how you feel
But she's not prepared to share you with the memory
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
Ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
And ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Post-Chorus]
Or do you want revenge?
But that's childish, so childish!
Another night with open eyes
Too late to sleep, too soon to rise
You're short of breath, is it a heart attack?
Hot and feverish you face the fact
[Pre-Chorus]
You're in love, and it feels like shame
Because she's gone and made a fool of you in public again
You're in love, and it feels like pain
Because you know there's too much truth in everything she claims
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she wants you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Verse 2]
You drift into the strangest dreams
Of youthful follies and changing teams
Admit you're wrong, oh, no, not yet
Then you wake up and remember that you can't forget
[Pre-Chorus]
She's made you some kind of laughing stock
Because you dance to disco, and you don't like rock
She'd make fun of you, and even in bed
Said she was gonna go and get herself a real man instead
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Post-Chorus]
Or do you want revenge?
But that's childish, so childish!
(But that's childish, so childish!)
[Verse 3]
Remember when you were more easily led
Behind the cricket pavilion and the bicycle shed
Trembling as your dreams came true
You looked right into those blue eyes and knew
[Pre-Chorus]
It was love, and now you can't pretend
You've forgotten all the promises of that first friend
It's bad enough, she knows how you feel
But she's not prepared to share you with the memory
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
Ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
And ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Post-Chorus]
Or do you want revenge?
But that's childish, so childish!
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 albums
- Very (1993)
- 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