Released: May 31, 1993
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
Another night with open eyes
Too late to sleep, too soon to rise
You're short of breath, is it a heart attack?
Hot and feverish you face the fact
[Pre-Chorus]
You're in love, and it feels like shame
Because she's gone and made a fool of you in public again
You're in love, and it feels like pain
Because you know there's too much truth in everything she claims
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she wants you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Verse 2]
You drift into the strangest dreams
Of youthful follies and changing teams
Admit you're wrong, oh, no, not yet
Then you wake up and remember that you can't forget
[Pre-Chorus]
She's made you some kind of laughing stock
Because you dance to disco, and you don't like rock
She'd make fun of you, and even in bed
Said she was gonna go and get herself a real man instead
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Post-Chorus]
Or do you want revenge?
But that's childish, so childish!
(But that's childish, so childish!)
[Verse 3]
Remember when you were more easily led
Behind the cricket pavilion and the bicycle shed
Trembling as your dreams came true
You looked right into those blue eyes and knew
[Pre-Chorus]
It was love, and now you can't pretend
You've forgotten all the promises of that first friend
It's bad enough, she knows how you feel
But she's not prepared to share you with the memory
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
Ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
And ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Post-Chorus]
Or do you want revenge?
But that's childish, so childish!
Another night with open eyes
Too late to sleep, too soon to rise
You're short of breath, is it a heart attack?
Hot and feverish you face the fact
[Pre-Chorus]
You're in love, and it feels like shame
Because she's gone and made a fool of you in public again
You're in love, and it feels like pain
Because you know there's too much truth in everything she claims
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she wants you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Verse 2]
You drift into the strangest dreams
Of youthful follies and changing teams
Admit you're wrong, oh, no, not yet
Then you wake up and remember that you can't forget
[Pre-Chorus]
She's made you some kind of laughing stock
Because you dance to disco, and you don't like rock
She'd make fun of you, and even in bed
Said she was gonna go and get herself a real man instead
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Post-Chorus]
Or do you want revenge?
But that's childish, so childish!
(But that's childish, so childish!)
[Verse 3]
Remember when you were more easily led
Behind the cricket pavilion and the bicycle shed
Trembling as your dreams came true
You looked right into those blue eyes and knew
[Pre-Chorus]
It was love, and now you can't pretend
You've forgotten all the promises of that first friend
It's bad enough, she knows how you feel
But she's not prepared to share you with the memory
[Chorus]
So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
Ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
If she begs you to?
And ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
[Post-Chorus]
Or do you want revenge?
But that's childish, so childish!
more tracks from the album
Very: Further Listening 1992 – 1994
- Go West
- Shameless
- Liberation
- Some Speculation
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad
- One in a Million
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Girls & Boys (Live in Rio)
- I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing [7" Version]
- Confidential (Demo for Tina)
- Falling (Demo for Kylie)
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Single Version)
- Go West [12" Version]
- Euroboy
- Can You Forgive Her?
- I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing
- The Theatre
- Decadence
- Young Offender
- If Love Were All (Bitter Sweet)
- To Speak Is a Sin
- A Different Point of View
- Forever in Love
- Violence (Haçienda Version)
- Too Many People
- One and One Make Five
- Dreaming of the Queen
- Hey, Headmaster
- Postscript (I Believe in Ecstasy)
From the albums
- Very (1993)
- 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
- All Over the World (This Is A Dub)
- After All
- Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
- So Hard
- Breathing Space
- Radiophonic
- Memory of the Future