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.