Released: September 27, 1993
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
We've been around forever
Look at us now together
Ordering drinks at the bar
Saying hello to man friends
Smiling across a friends' friends
Ordering drinks at the bar
[Chorus]
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
[Interlude]
[Verse 2]
We'll stand around forever
Regardless of time or weather
Ordering drinks at the bar
Looking for love, and getting
Nothing that's worth regretting
But wondering why we travel so far
[Chorus]
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
[Chorus]
To speak is a sin
You'd better beware
But once in a while
A smile, if you dare
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
[Chorus]
To speak is a sin
You'd better beware
But once in a while
A smile, if you dare
We've been around forever
Look at us now together
Ordering drinks at the bar
Saying hello to man friends
Smiling across a friends' friends
Ordering drinks at the bar
[Chorus]
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
[Interlude]
[Verse 2]
We'll stand around forever
Regardless of time or weather
Ordering drinks at the bar
Looking for love, and getting
Nothing that's worth regretting
But wondering why we travel so far
[Chorus]
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
[Chorus]
To speak is a sin
You'd better beware
But once in a while
A smile, if you dare
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
To speak is a sin
You look first, then stare
And once in a while
A smile, if you dare
[Chorus]
To speak is a sin
You'd better beware
But once in a while
A smile, if you dare
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)
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