Released: July 24, 1995
Songwriter: Alex James Dave Rowntree Graham Coxon Damon Albarn
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Refrain]
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
[Verse 1]
Street's like a jungle, so call the police
Following the herd down to Greece on holiday
Love in the nineties, it's paranoid
On sunny beaches, take your chances, looking for
[Chorus]
Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love
Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love
[Refrain]
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
[Verse 2]
Avoiding all work 'cause there's none available
Like battery thinkers, count your thoughts on one, two, three, four, five fingers
Nothing is wasted, only reproduced
You get nasty blisters, du bist sehr schön, but we haven't been introduced
[Chorus]
Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love
Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love
[Refrain]
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
[Verse 1]
Street's like a jungle, so call the police
Following the herd down to Greece on holiday
Love in the nineties, it's paranoid
On sunny beaches, take your chances, looking for
[Chorus]
Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love
Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love
[Refrain]
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
[Verse 2]
Avoiding all work 'cause there's none available
Like battery thinkers, count your thoughts on one, two, three, four, five fingers
Nothing is wasted, only reproduced
You get nasty blisters, du bist sehr schön, but we haven't been introduced
[Chorus]
Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love
Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love
[Refrain]
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh
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)
- Discovery: Live in Rio 1994 (2021)
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