Released: April 4, 1994
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
You don't care about nothing
So you don't care about love
If you want me to come back
You'd better change
[Verse 2]
You'd better give up talking about money
Begin thinking of love
If you want me to come back
You'd better change
[Chorus]
You'd better change for the better
It cost more than dollars and cents
Take it from me, there's got to be
An end to this decadence
This decadence
[Verse 3]
You don't care about people
So you don't care about pain
If you want me to come back
You'd better change
[Chorus]
You'd better change for the better
Start using some common sense
Take it from me there's got to be
An end to this decadence
[Post-Chorus]
For decadence is fatal
It's the beginning of the end
In self-defence, I cannot recommend
This decadence
[Verse 4]
You don't care about real life
You're too distant and strange
If you want me to come back
[Chorus]
You'd better change for the better
It may be rather intense
Stop this caprice, you've got to cease
This fin-de-si'cle pretence
[Post-Chorus]
For decadence is fatal
It's the beginning of the end
In consequence, I cannot recommend
This decadence
[Outro]
This decadence
This decadence
This decadence
You don't care about nothing
So you don't care about love
If you want me to come back
You'd better change
[Verse 2]
You'd better give up talking about money
Begin thinking of love
If you want me to come back
You'd better change
[Chorus]
You'd better change for the better
It cost more than dollars and cents
Take it from me, there's got to be
An end to this decadence
This decadence
[Verse 3]
You don't care about people
So you don't care about pain
If you want me to come back
You'd better change
[Chorus]
You'd better change for the better
Start using some common sense
Take it from me there's got to be
An end to this decadence
[Post-Chorus]
For decadence is fatal
It's the beginning of the end
In self-defence, I cannot recommend
This decadence
[Verse 4]
You don't care about real life
You're too distant and strange
If you want me to come back
[Chorus]
You'd better change for the better
It may be rather intense
Stop this caprice, you've got to cease
This fin-de-si'cle pretence
[Post-Chorus]
For decadence is fatal
It's the beginning of the end
In consequence, I cannot recommend
This decadence
[Outro]
This decadence
This decadence
This decadence
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
- Alternative (1995)
- Very: Further Listening 1992 – 1994 (2001)
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