Released: November 29, 1993
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
Ask me why
I say it's most unusual
How can I even try to explain
Why today I feel like dancing
Singing like lovers sing
[Refrain]
When I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
[Verse 2]
Ask me when (Ta-ra-ra-ra)
I say it started when I met you (Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra)
And ever since then I knew that the past couldn't last
For right now, I think I'm running
A race I know I'm gonna win
[Refrain]
And I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
[Bridge]
If people say I'm crazy, I tell 'em that it's true
Let them watch with amazement
Say it won't last beyond breakfast
It's a phase he's going through
Denigrate or speculate on what I'm going through
Because it isn't the sort of thing I would normally do
[Interlude]
I wouldn't normally do...
I wouldn't normally do...
[Verse 3]
Ask me what (Ta-ra-ra-ra)
I say I think it's good for you (Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra)
Believe it or not, I know where it's all leading to
I feel like taking all my clothes off
Dancing to the Rite of Spring
[Refrain]
And I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of
This kind of thing
[Outro]
Wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
Wouldn't normally do this kind of
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of, this kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
Ask me why
I say it's most unusual
How can I even try to explain
Why today I feel like dancing
Singing like lovers sing
[Refrain]
When I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
[Verse 2]
Ask me when (Ta-ra-ra-ra)
I say it started when I met you (Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra)
And ever since then I knew that the past couldn't last
For right now, I think I'm running
A race I know I'm gonna win
[Refrain]
And I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
[Bridge]
If people say I'm crazy, I tell 'em that it's true
Let them watch with amazement
Say it won't last beyond breakfast
It's a phase he's going through
Denigrate or speculate on what I'm going through
Because it isn't the sort of thing I would normally do
[Interlude]
I wouldn't normally do...
I wouldn't normally do...
[Verse 3]
Ask me what (Ta-ra-ra-ra)
I say I think it's good for you (Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra)
Believe it or not, I know where it's all leading to
I feel like taking all my clothes off
Dancing to the Rite of Spring
[Refrain]
And I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of
This kind of thing
[Outro]
Wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
Wouldn't normally do this kind of
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of, this kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
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: 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