PET SHOP BOYS - WEST END GIRLS

WEST END GIRLS

PET SHOP BOYS

SONGWRITERS: NEIL TENNANT & CHRIS lOWE

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: WEST END GIRLS

LABEL: PARLOPHONE RECORDS

GENRE: SYNTHPOP

YEAR: 1984

"West End Girls" is a song by the British pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song was released twice as a single. The song is influenced by hip hop music, with lyrics concerned with class and the pressures of inner-city life which were inspired partly by T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. It was generally well received by contemporary music critics and has been frequently cited as a highlight in the duo's career.

The first version of the song was produced by Bobby Orlando and was released on Columbia Records' Bobcat Records imprint in April 1984, becoming a club hit in the United States and some European countries. After the duo signed with EMI, the song was re-recorded with producer Stephen Hague for their first studio album, Please. In October 1985, the new version was released, reaching number one in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1986.

(... forever)

Sometimes you're better off dead

There's gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head

You think you're mad, too unstable

Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables

In a restaurant in a West End town

Call the police, there's a madman around

Running down underground to a dive bar

In a West End town

In a West End town, a dead end world

The East End boys and West End girls

In a West End town, a dead end world

The East End boys and West End girls

West End girls

Too many shadows, whispering voices

Faces on posters, too many choices

If, when, why, what?

How much have you got?

Have you got it, do you get it, if so, how often?

And which do you choose, a hard or soft option?

(How much do you need?)

In a West End town, a dead end world

The East End boys and West End girls

In a West End town, a dead end world

The East End boys and West End girls

West End girls

West End girls

How much do you need?

In a West End town, a dead end world

The East End boys and West End girls

OOh West End town, a dead end world

East End boys, West End Girls

West End girls

You've got a heart of glass or a heart of stone

Just you wait 'til I get you home

We've got no future, we've got no past

Here today, built to last

In every city, in every nation

From Lake Geneva to the Finland station

(How far have you been?)

In a West End town, a dead end world

The East End boys and West End girls

A West End town, a dead end world

East End Boys, West End girls

West End girls

West End girls

West End girls

(How far have you been?)

Girls

East End boys

And West End girls

And West End girls

(... forever)

And West End girls

(How far have you been?)

East End boys

The West End girls

The West End boys

And West End girls

The West End girls

The West End boys

The West End girls.