Released: September 27, 1993
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Intro]
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
[Verse 1]
It's another world here
The streets are gleaming
I was even dreaming
That they're paved with gold
Seventeen
At half-past ten
All the crowds are surging past
An electric display
[Verse 2]
There's another world here
Below shop windows
Upon the pavement
Where you wave goodbye
Boys and girls come to roost
From Northern parts
And Scottish towns
Will we catch your eye?
[Chorus]
While you pretend not to notice
All the years we've been here
We're the bums you step over
As you leave the Theatre
(Yeah!)
[Verse 3]
It's another world here
Somebody is singing
I was only wishing
For a bit of cash
From a patron
Of the arts
Or at least the Phantom of the Opera
Will I catch your eye?
[Chorus]
While you pretend not to notice
All the years we've been here
We're the bums you step over
As you leave the Theatre
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
[Bridge]
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
[Verse 4]
Pavarotti in the park
Then you walked
Back up the Strand
Did you catch my eye?
[Chorus]
And then pretend not to notice
All the years we've been here
We're the bums you step over
As you leave the Theatre
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
In the end, you pretend
'Cause it's so much easier
We're the bums you step over
As you leave the Theatre
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
[Outro]
We're the bums you step over
As you leave the Theatre
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
[Verse 1]
It's another world here
The streets are gleaming
I was even dreaming
That they're paved with gold
Seventeen
At half-past ten
All the crowds are surging past
An electric display
[Verse 2]
There's another world here
Below shop windows
Upon the pavement
Where you wave goodbye
Boys and girls come to roost
From Northern parts
And Scottish towns
Will we catch your eye?
[Chorus]
While you pretend not to notice
All the years we've been here
We're the bums you step over
As you leave the Theatre
(Yeah!)
[Verse 3]
It's another world here
Somebody is singing
I was only wishing
For a bit of cash
From a patron
Of the arts
Or at least the Phantom of the Opera
Will I catch your eye?
[Chorus]
While you pretend not to notice
All the years we've been here
We're the bums you step over
As you leave the Theatre
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
[Bridge]
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody
[Verse 4]
Pavarotti in the park
Then you walked
Back up the Strand
Did you catch my eye?
[Chorus]
And then pretend not to notice
All the years we've been here
We're the bums you step over
As you leave the Theatre
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
In the end, you pretend
'Cause it's so much easier
We're the bums you step over
As you leave the Theatre
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
[Outro]
We're the bums you step over
As you leave the Theatre
(Yeah!)
(Yeah!)
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)
- Very (1993)
- Very: Further Listening 1992 – 1994 (2001)
- 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