Released: September 24, 1990
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys Harold Faltermeyer
[Verse 1]
I double-cross you
And you get mysterious mail
I've tried hard not to shock you
It's hard not to with the things I could say
[Chorus]
Tell me why don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves?
Why don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves?
[Verse 2]
You lock your letters in a box
And you've hidden the key
I go one better, I'm indebted
To a contact magazine
[Chorus]
Tell me why don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves?
Why don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for us?
[Bridge]
Everybody's got to live together
Just to find a little peace of mind there
If you give up your affairs forever
I will give up mine
But it's hard, so hard
[Verse 3]
I'm always hoping you'll be faithful
But you're not, I suppose
We've both given up smoking 'cause it's fatal
So whose matches are those?
[Chorus]
Tell me why
Don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves?
[Post-Chorus]
We make it so hard
(It's so hard)
[Chorus]
Tell me why
Don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard?
Tell me why
Don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves?
[Outro]
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves
We make it so hard for ourselves
We make it so hard
So hard
We make it so hard
I double-cross you
And you get mysterious mail
I've tried hard not to shock you
It's hard not to with the things I could say
[Chorus]
Tell me why don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves?
Why don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves?
[Verse 2]
You lock your letters in a box
And you've hidden the key
I go one better, I'm indebted
To a contact magazine
[Chorus]
Tell me why don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves?
Why don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for us?
[Bridge]
Everybody's got to live together
Just to find a little peace of mind there
If you give up your affairs forever
I will give up mine
But it's hard, so hard
[Verse 3]
I'm always hoping you'll be faithful
But you're not, I suppose
We've both given up smoking 'cause it's fatal
So whose matches are those?
[Chorus]
Tell me why
Don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves?
[Post-Chorus]
We make it so hard
(It's so hard)
[Chorus]
Tell me why
Don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard?
Tell me why
Don't we try
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves?
[Outro]
Not to break our hearts and make it so hard for ourselves
We make it so hard for ourselves
We make it so hard
So hard
We make it so hard
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)
- Behaviour (1990)
- NOW That’s What I Call Music! 18 [UK] (1990)
- Videography (The Singles Collection on Video) (1991)
- Discography (1991)
- Behaviour: Further Listening 1990 – 1991 (2001)
- PopArt: The Hits (2003)
- PopArt (The Videos) (2003)
- 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