Released: November 29, 1993
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
The sons and brothers, fighting for another cause
Anything to give their lives some meaning
Busy with their guns and dreaming
Far away from here
Said they would act in self-defence
[Verse 2]
And all the others, running 'round so hot and bothered
Anything to give their lives some meaning
In the evening
Running around with guns and
Said they would act in self-defence
With violence
[Chorus]
Violence breeds violence
(Ooh yeah, ooh yeah)
Violence breeds violence
(Ooh yeah, violence breeds violence)
(Ooh yeah, breeds yeah, breeds yeah)
(Ooh yeah, ooh yeah)
[Verse 3]
The son and brother, when he gets home
He gives someone some love
And mutters: "Woman, you'll never understand
I did what I said in self-defence
With violence"
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
Violence breeds violence
(Ooh yeah, ooh yeah)
Violence breeds violence
(Ooh yeah, ooh yeah)
[Outro]
(Ooh yeah, violence)
(Ooh yeah, violence breeds violence)
The sons and brothers, fighting for another cause
Anything to give their lives some meaning
Busy with their guns and dreaming
Far away from here
Said they would act in self-defence
[Verse 2]
And all the others, running 'round so hot and bothered
Anything to give their lives some meaning
In the evening
Running around with guns and
Said they would act in self-defence
With violence
[Chorus]
Violence breeds violence
(Ooh yeah, ooh yeah)
Violence breeds violence
(Ooh yeah, violence breeds violence)
(Ooh yeah, breeds yeah, breeds yeah)
(Ooh yeah, ooh yeah)
[Verse 3]
The son and brother, when he gets home
He gives someone some love
And mutters: "Woman, you'll never understand
I did what I said in self-defence
With violence"
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
Violence breeds violence
(Ooh yeah, ooh yeah)
Violence breeds violence
(Ooh yeah, ooh yeah)
[Outro]
(Ooh yeah, violence)
(Ooh yeah, violence breeds violence)
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
- 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