Released: April 1, 2002
Songwriter: Harold Darke Christina Rossetti Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
Birthday boy
Can't explain
Christmas Eve
He's born again
On the line
A broken train
Going nowhere
Endless rain
Birthday boy
So afraid
Plays the machines
In the arcade
[Chorus]
Oh baby do you remember
He's been through all this before
Spent the summer
Getting nowhere
Taking all of the blame
For the city
Calculating
From pain comes pity
[Verse 2]
Christmas Eve
A time of joy
If you believe
In Birthday boy
This time around
It's all a mistake
Is he deluded
Or just a fake?
[Chorus]
Oh baby do you remember
He's been through all this before
Spent the summer
Getting nowhere
Taking all of the blame
For the city
Calculating
From pain comes pity
[Bridge]
If you knew his name
Whould you feel the same?
If you knew his name?
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
Birthday boy
Stands apart
As the drama's
About to start
A quick betrayal
A speedy trial
As before
Complete denial
[Chorus]
Oh baby do you remember
He's been through all this before
Spent the summer
Getting nowhere
Taking all of the blame
For the city
Calculating
From pain comes pity
[Outro]
If you knew his name
Would you feel the same?
Birthday boy
Can't explain
Christmas Eve
He's born again
On the line
A broken train
Going nowhere
Endless rain
Birthday boy
So afraid
Plays the machines
In the arcade
[Chorus]
Oh baby do you remember
He's been through all this before
Spent the summer
Getting nowhere
Taking all of the blame
For the city
Calculating
From pain comes pity
[Verse 2]
Christmas Eve
A time of joy
If you believe
In Birthday boy
This time around
It's all a mistake
Is he deluded
Or just a fake?
[Chorus]
Oh baby do you remember
He's been through all this before
Spent the summer
Getting nowhere
Taking all of the blame
For the city
Calculating
From pain comes pity
[Bridge]
If you knew his name
Whould you feel the same?
If you knew his name?
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
Birthday boy
Stands apart
As the drama's
About to start
A quick betrayal
A speedy trial
As before
Complete denial
[Chorus]
Oh baby do you remember
He's been through all this before
Spent the summer
Getting nowhere
Taking all of the blame
For the city
Calculating
From pain comes pity
[Outro]
If you knew his name
Would you feel the same?
more tracks from the album
Release: Further Listening 2001 – 2004
- It’s a Sin (Barfly Version)
- Jack and Jill Party (Demo)
- No Excuse (Demo)
- A Powerful Friend
- Bright Young Things (Demo)
- Flamboyant [Single Mix]
- Love Life
- Here (PSB New Extended Mix)
- Always
- The Samurai In Autumn
- Baby (Demo)
- Flamboyant (Original Demo)
- Numb (Demo)
- Alone Again, Naturally
- If Looks Could Kill (John Peel Version)
- A Powerful Friend (John Peel Version)
- Kazak (Demo)
- Run, Girl, Run (Demo)
- Closer To Heaven (Slow Version)
- The Night is a Time to Explore Who You Are (Demo)
- Motoring (Demo)
- Reunion (Electro Mix)
- Between Two Islands
- Blue on Blue
- London
- In Private
- Home and Dry (Ambient Mix)
- Sexy Northerner
- Time On My Hands
- If Looks Could Kill
- Searching For the Face of Jesus
- Party Song
- You Choose
- Bright Young Things
- Love is a Catastrophe
- Here
- I Get Along
- Miracles
- Transparent
- Birthday Boy
- Try It (I’m In Love With a Married Man)
- Home and Dry
- I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today
- We’re The Pet Shop Boys
- The Night I Fell in Love
From the albums
- Release (2002)
- Release: Further Listening 2001 – 2004 (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