We're the Pet Shop Boys

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First released in 2003, this song was a bonus track of the Pet Shop Boys song "Miracles", the only single from their second compilation album of b-sides and bonus tracks Format. Notably, this is a cover version of this song, which was written and originally recorded by Howard Rigberg. The song tells a sad, nostalgic story of lost love in which the narrator remembers a time in the mid-1980s when he imagined himself and his lover as the Pet Shop Boys. There is an underlying melancholy present in this song, which

Suburbia's a slipstream
to a memory
of a time when you were
close to me
I pretend
I'm there again
I close my eyes and see you
better than before
then I feel you touch me
and it's 1984
I know what you will say
before you start
in my heart

We're the Pet Shop Boys
We're the Pet Shop Boys

Every thought's a fashion
or a crime
and every boy is just
a waste of time
but I pretend
it was different then
Maybe it's a habit
Maybe it's a sin
But I find out
when I try it on
it crawls beneath my skin
Once it gets inside me
it won't go
Now I know

We're the Pet Shop Boys
We're the Pet Shop Boys

Rent
Shopping
Being boring
It's alright
It's a sin
I'm not scared
In denial
I want a dog
I want a lover
Can you forgive her?
Do I have to?
What have I? What have I?
What have I done to deserve this?

We're the Pet Shop Boys
We're the Pet Shop Boys

Written by Lowe

Works Cited

A large part of this song analysis was attained from the Pet Shop Boys fansite Geowayne: Commentary, Interpretation, and Analysis of Every Song by Pet Shop Boys. Retrieved from http://www.geowayne.com/newDesign/alternative/dark.htm

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