Released: April 1, 2002
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
Love is a catastrophe
Look what it's done to me
Brought me down here so low
Stranded, nowhere to go
[Verse 2]
No concentration
Just rerunning conversation
Trying to understand
How I fell into this quicksand
[Verse 3]
What happens next?
With life I'm unimpressed
Pain like a cutter's knife
Never been lonelier in my life
[Interlude]
[Verse 4]
Who issued the instruction
For this mad act of destruction?
An end to equilibrium
Fate laughs:
Look what we've done to him!
[Verse 5]
High wind through the trees
Falling November leaves
A weak sun hanging low
Summer seems so long ago
[Verse 6]
All my former dreams
Tender romantic schemes
Revealed as so naive
To think I could believe
[Verse 7]
In love as the kindest law
Not as a declaration of war
On my life and sanity
Now I know at last for me
Love is a catastrophe
Love is a catastrophe
Look what it's done to me
Brought me down here so low
Stranded, nowhere to go
[Verse 2]
No concentration
Just rerunning conversation
Trying to understand
How I fell into this quicksand
[Verse 3]
What happens next?
With life I'm unimpressed
Pain like a cutter's knife
Never been lonelier in my life
[Interlude]
[Verse 4]
Who issued the instruction
For this mad act of destruction?
An end to equilibrium
Fate laughs:
Look what we've done to him!
[Verse 5]
High wind through the trees
Falling November leaves
A weak sun hanging low
Summer seems so long ago
[Verse 6]
All my former dreams
Tender romantic schemes
Revealed as so naive
To think I could believe
[Verse 7]
In love as the kindest law
Not as a declaration of war
On my life and sanity
Now I know at last for me
Love is a catastrophe
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
- All Over the World (This Is A Dub)
- After All
- Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
- So Hard
- Breathing Space
- Radiophonic
- Memory of the Future