Released: January 14, 2000
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
What a performance tonight
Should I react or turn off the light?
Looks like you're picking a fight
In a blurring of wrong and right
But how your mood changes
You're a devil, now an angel
Suddenly subtle and solemn and silent as a monk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
It's better than nothing, I suppose
Some doors have opened, others closed
But I couldn't see you exposed
To the horrors behind some of those
Somebody said, "Listen
Don't you know what you're missing?
You should be kissing him instead of dissing him like a punk"
But you only tell me you love me when you're drunk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Bridge: Neil Tennant]
All of my friends keep asking me
"Why? Oh, why
Do you not say goodbye?
If you don't even try
You'll be sunk"
'Cause you only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Interlude]
[Verse 3: Neil Tennant]
What's the meaning
When you speak with so much feeling?
Is it over when you're sober?
Is it junk?
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
What a performance tonight
Should I react or turn off the light?
Looks like you're picking a fight
In a blurring of wrong and right
But how your mood changes
You're a devil, now an angel
Suddenly subtle and solemn and silent as a monk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
It's better than nothing, I suppose
Some doors have opened, others closed
But I couldn't see you exposed
To the horrors behind some of those
Somebody said, "Listen
Don't you know what you're missing?
You should be kissing him instead of dissing him like a punk"
But you only tell me you love me when you're drunk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Bridge: Neil Tennant]
All of my friends keep asking me
"Why? Oh, why
Do you not say goodbye?
If you don't even try
You'll be sunk"
'Cause you only tell me you love me when you're drunk
[Interlude]
[Verse 3: Neil Tennant]
What's the meaning
When you speak with so much feeling?
Is it over when you're sober?
Is it junk?
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk
more tracks from the album
Ultimate
- West End Girls [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- Love etc. [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- Did You See Me Coming? [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- More Than a Dream / Heart [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- I’m with Stupid [Top of the Pops - 2006/04/23]
- Flamboyant [Top of the Pops - 2004/03/19]
- Miracles [Top of the Pops - 2003/11/14]
- I Get Along [Top of the Pops 2 - 2002/04/17]
- Home and Dry [Top of the Pops - 2002/03/29]
- You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk [Top of the Pops - 2000/01/14]
- New York City Boy [Top of the Pops - 1999/10/08]
- I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Anymore [Top of the Pops - 1999/07/30]
- Somewhere [Top of the Pops - 1997/07/04]
- A Red Letter Day [Top of the Pops - 1997/03/28]
- Se a Vide É (That’s the Way Life Is) [Top of the Pops 2 - 1997/03/28]
- Integral / Building a Wall [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- Go West [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- Two Divided by Zero [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- Being Boring [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- It’s a Sin [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- Domino Dancing / Viva la Vida [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- Se a Vida É / Discoteca [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- All Over the World [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/2
- Suburbia [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- Jealousy [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- King’s Cross [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- Do I Have To? [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- Closer to Heaven / Left to My Own Devices / Heart [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton
- Always on My Mind [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- New York City Boy [Live at Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, UK - 2010/06/26]
- Why Don’t We Live Together? / In the Night / Left to My Own Devices [Live at Glastonbury Festival, W
- Paninaro ’95 [Top of the Pops - 1995/08/03]
- Liberation [Top of the Pops - 1994/04/07]
- Can You Forgive Her? [Top of the Pops - 1993/06/10]
- Heart [7"Version]
- Being Boring [7" Edit]
- Domino Dancing (7" Version)
- Left to My Own Devices [7" Version]
- I’m With Stupid
- Miracles
- Love etc.
- New York City Boy (US Radio Edit)
- Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)
- It’s a Sin
- Se a Vida É (That’s the Way Life Is)
- Always On My Mind
- Before [Single Edit]
- Home and Dry [Radio Edit]
- Suburbia [7"Version]
- West End Girls [7"Version]
- Go West [Single Version]
- Being Boring [Top of the Pops - 1990/11/29]
- So Hard [Wogan - 1990/09/28]
- Left to My Own Devices [Top of the Pops - 1988/12/01
- Domino Dancing [Top of the Pops - 1988/09/22]
- Heart [Wogan - 1988/03/30]
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? [Brit Awards - 1988/02/08]
- Always on My Mind [Top of the Pops - 1987/12/10]
- Rent [Top of the Pops - 1987/10/22]
- It’s a Sin [Top of the Pops - 1987/06/25]
- Suburbia [Top of the Pops - 1986/10/02]
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) [Old Grey Whistle Test - 1986/04/29]
- Love Comes Quickly [Top of the Pops - 1986/03/20]
- West End Girls [Top of the Pops - 1985/12/15]
- Together [Ultimate Mix]
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
From the album
- Ultimate (2010)
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