Released: November 29, 1993
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
Ask me why
I say it's most unusual
How can I even try to explain
Why today I feel like dancing
Singing like lovers sing
[Refrain]
When I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
[Verse 2]
Ask me when (Ta-ra-ra-ra)
I say it started when I met you (Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra)
And ever since then I knew that the past couldn't last
For right now, I think I'm running
A race I know I'm gonna win
[Refrain]
And I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
[Bridge]
If people say I'm crazy, I tell 'em that it's true
Let them watch with amazement
Say it won't last beyond breakfast
It's a phase he's going through
Denigrate or speculate on what I'm going through
Because it isn't the sort of thing I would normally do
[Interlude]
I wouldn't normally do...
I wouldn't normally do...
[Verse 3]
Ask me what (Ta-ra-ra-ra)
I say I think it's good for you (Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra)
Believe it or not, I know where it's all leading to
I feel like taking all my clothes off
Dancing to the Rite of Spring
[Refrain]
And I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of
This kind of thing
[Outro]
Wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
Wouldn't normally do this kind of
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of, this kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
Ask me why
I say it's most unusual
How can I even try to explain
Why today I feel like dancing
Singing like lovers sing
[Refrain]
When I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
[Verse 2]
Ask me when (Ta-ra-ra-ra)
I say it started when I met you (Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra)
And ever since then I knew that the past couldn't last
For right now, I think I'm running
A race I know I'm gonna win
[Refrain]
And I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
[Bridge]
If people say I'm crazy, I tell 'em that it's true
Let them watch with amazement
Say it won't last beyond breakfast
It's a phase he's going through
Denigrate or speculate on what I'm going through
Because it isn't the sort of thing I would normally do
[Interlude]
I wouldn't normally do...
I wouldn't normally do...
[Verse 3]
Ask me what (Ta-ra-ra-ra)
I say I think it's good for you (Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra)
Believe it or not, I know where it's all leading to
I feel like taking all my clothes off
Dancing to the Rite of Spring
[Refrain]
And I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
I wouldn't normally do this kind of
This kind of thing
[Outro]
Wouldn't normally do this kind of thing
Wouldn't normally do this kind of
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of, this kind of thing
This kind of thing
This kind of thing
more tracks from the album
Very: Further Listening 1992 – 1994
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- 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: 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