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Pet Shop Boys - Axis

Pet Shop Boys - Axis Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Electric
Released: 2013

Axis Lyrics

Turn it on†¨
Electric†¨ energy, electric energy
Electric energy, electric energy

Turn it on
Electric
Electric energy, electric energy
Electric energy†¨
Power it up and turn it on
Electric
Turn it up
Electric†¨

Feel the power
Electric energy
Electric
Turn it on, turn it on

Plug it in
Charge it up
Electric energy, electric energy
Electric energy †¨
Turn it on
Electric energy
Electric
Turn it on

Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER LOWE, NEIL FRANCIS TENNANT
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Axis

This largely instrumental banger was released as the first single from The Pet Shop Boys' twelfth album, Electric. It was debuted on March 22, 2013 at the Cumbre Tajín festival in Veracruz, Mexico and released digitally on May 1, 2013.

An extremely negative review of the Pet Shop Boys previous album, Elysium, had an incalculable effect on Electric. "They said they wanted more banging and more strobes," Chris Lowe told Q magazine. So we thought, 'Well, that's what you're going to get, then.'"

The Pet Shop duo employed Stuart Price, best known for his work with Madonna and The Killers, to produce Electric. "It was a quick, instinctive record to make," Price said. "But I think that's because a record normally sounds like the time you have making it and we had a lot of fun doing it."

The song was inspired by an Italian Disco night in Berlin that the Pet Shop duo attended. Chris Lowe told Electronic Beats magazine that the pair, "got back and felt inspired by the music we'd been listening to—nothing specific, but just the feeling of it all."

Tennant added "I think it was this track that might have made us decide to do a separate dance album — 'cause this was never going to go on Elysium. There was no option of that at all."

This song was inspired by Madonna. Neil Tennant laughed to The Sun: "Axis had a rubbish vocal at first. Then I pretended to be Madonna on 'Erotica' and said it in an American accent. Now when I hear the voice at the start of the show, I don't think of it as me but my alter-ego, 'The Electric voice'."

This was titled various times "Electric" and "Turn it On", before the Pet Shop Boys settled on "Axis."

Producer Stuart Price told Electronic Beats magazine: "The demo always had the direction and the atmosphere. I sort of always thought it had this sort of futuristic, sort of mystical 'City in the Skies' feel to it, and that's what I loved about it. It was sort of like where Techno met Disco… and that's always what it felt like, so when we were working on it in the studio I think it was just putting it into a place where it could be played in a DJ set now."

"The BCS-3 is that box you always see Eno with in a Roxy Music video, or on a Bowie record," he continued. "And there's not really anyone alive that can play it, but anyone can sort of stand there and just push it and it will do something. So all this, it's just the sound of those boxes—plus disco bells, equals 'Axis.'"

Pet Shop Boys - Fluorescent

Pet Shop Boys - Fluorescent Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Electric
Released: 2013

Fluorescent Lyrics

You walk in
And you light up the room

You’ve been living… in a looking glass scene
Since you… were 17
I can’t deny… you’ve made your move
With a heavy cup to spend the occasional army cup

Brighter and brighter and brighter you burn
When you’re in this mood there’s no return
Life’s a gamble, throw my dice
Every scandal has it's price
Brighter and brighter and brighter you burn
When you’re in this mood there’s no return
Fluorescent

Fluorescent
Incandescent
Fluorescent
Incandescent

You walk in
And you light up the room

At midnight it’s time for business
But who… will bear witness?
To your beauty and refrain
But how well you’ve played the game?
You’ve played the game, you’ve played the game
You’ve played the game, you’ve played the game
You’ve played the game, you’ve played the game
You’ve played the game, you’ve played the game
You’ve played the game

Brighter and brighter and brighter you burn
When you’re in this mood there’s no return
Life’s a gamble, throw my dice
Every scandal has it's price
Brighter and brighter and brighter you burn
When you’re in this mood there’s no return
Fluorescent

Fluorescent
Incandescent
Fluorescent
Incandescent

Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER LOWE, NEIL FRANCIS TENNANT
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Fluorescent

This moody, murky exploration of nocturnal decadence was the last song written for Electric. The Pet Shop pair had decided that they needed one more track for Electric and by this stage, Chris Lowe and producer Stuart Price were in Berlin and Neil Tennant was in Los Angeles. One morning Tennant woke up to find three e-mails from Lowe with ideas for tracks he'd done at home, all of which he liked. Tennant recalled to Electronic Beats magazine: "I sent it back to Chris and said, 'Why don't we make this the ninth track on the album?' And then we did quite a lot of work on this: put the vocal on, turned it into a song,"

Pet Shop Boys - Shouting In The Evening

Pet Shop Boys - Shouting In The Evening Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Electric
Released: 2013

Shouting In The Evening Lyrics

Shout!
Shout!
Shout!

What a feeling
Shouting In The Evening
Shout!
Shouting In The Evening
Shout!
Shout!

It feels so good
It feels so good
It feels so good
It feels so good
It feels so good
It feels so good
It feels so good
It feels so good
It feels so good

Shout!
Shout!

What a feeling
Shouting In the evening

It feels so good
It feels so good
It feels so good
It feels so good
It feels so good

Shout!
Shout!

Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER LOWE, NEIL FRANCIS TENNANT
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Shouting In The Evening

Vocalist Neil Tennant told Electronic Beats magazine about this song: "There's a quote by the British actor Michael Gambon, who was asked to describe what he did for a living—as an actor obviously—and he said, 'Shouting in the evening!' And the lyric is actually really taken from Lionel Richie 'Dancing On The Ceiling': 'Oh what a feeling, shouting in the evening.' [laughs] No really, it's, 'Oh what a feeling. When you're dancing on the ceiling."'

"And also, what was great about this," Tennant continued, "what with its unusual structures, as the lyricist I didn't have to come up really with many more lyrics. Amazingly enough, we'd never done 'What? What? What? What?/When? When? When? When?/Why? Why? Why? Why? Now. Now. Now. Now.' So that went in. The vocal manipulation, this was done by Chris (Lowe), in fact."

Pet Shop Boys - Vocal

Pet Shop Boys - Vocal Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Electric
Released: 2013

Vocal Lyrics

I like the people, I like the song
This is my kind of music
They play it all night long
I like the singer, he’s lonely and strange
Every track has a Vocal, and that makes a change

And everything about tonight feels right and so young
And anything I wanna say out loud will be sung

It’s in the music, it’s in the song
Everyone I hoped would be around has come around
For the music
It’s in the music, it’s in the song
And the feeling of the one surround us,
Oh it’s so strong
It’s in the music

And everything about tonight feels right and so young
And anything I wanna say out loud will be sung
This is my kind of music
They play it all night long

Expressing passion
Explaining pain
Aspirations for a better life are ordained

And everything about tonight feels right and so young
And anything I wanna say out loud will be sung
This is my kind of music
They play it all night long

It’s in the music
And everything about tonight feels right and so young
And anything I wanna say out loud will be sung
It's in the music
It's in the music
This is my kind of music
They play it all night long
They play it all night long
And the feeling of the warmth around us all is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong
Is so strong

I like the people, I like the song
This is my kind of music
They play it all night long
I like the singer, he’s lonely and strange
Every track has a vocal, and that makes a change

Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER LOWE, NEIL FRANCIS TENNANT
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Vocal

This paean to raving started off as a joke based on the fact that dance songs don't have vocals anymore (Hence the line "I like the singer, he's lonely and strange – every track has a vocal, and that makes a change). However it then turned into something more heartfelt. Vocalist Neil Tennant recalled to Pop Justice : "I can remember us being on the Discovery tour in Brazil, and on the last night of the tour we were all on the dancefloor – me, our dancers, Chris Lowe, Chris Heath, in this club in either Sao Paulo or Rio, and it was just . I remember having a very similar experience when we were somewhere during the era when 'Music Sounds Better With You' was out, which is quite a long time ago…"

"You couldn't get enough of that record at the time," he continued. "I remember looking around and everyone was just so happy. Also with 'Vocal', while I didn't do the rave thing in 1988 and 1989, Chris saw the light then and I was thinking of that from his perspective. It's actually a very sincere song."

The video was produced and directed by the filmmaker and photographer Joost Vandebrug. It contains a collection of amateur footage shot at raves in the late 1980s, as well as material filmed in the infamous Haçienda in Manchester.

This was the final track on Electric, the Pet Shop Boys' first independently released album. It was issued through the duo's own x2 label, via Kobalt Label Services.

Electric debuted at #26 on the Billboard 200, the Pet Shop Boys' highest charting album in nearly 20 years. They last went higher with 1993's Very, which arrived and peaked at #20.

Pet Shop Boys - Rent

Pet Shop Boys - Rent Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Actually
Released: 1987

Rent Lyrics

You dress me up, I'm your puppet
You buy me things, I love it
You bring me food, I need it
You give me love, I feed it

And look at the two of us in sympathy
With everything we see
I never want anything, it's easy
You buy whatever I need

But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my Rent
I love you, you pay my rent

You phone me in the evening on hearsay
And bought me caviar
You took me to a restaurant off Broadway
To tell me who you are

We never-ever argue, we never calculate
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent

I'm your puppet
I love it

And look at the two of us in sympathy
And sometimes ecstasy
Words mean so little, and money less
When you're lying next to me

But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent

Look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent

Look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent (It's easy, it's so easy)
You pay my rent (It's easy, it's so easy)
You pay my rent (It's easy, it's so easy)
I love you (It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
(It's easy, it's so easy)
Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER LOWE, NEIL TENNANT
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Rent

This ballad deals with a financially one-sided relationship sung from the perspective of a kept woman. Vocalist Neil Tennant told Mojo magazine August 2013: "I come from an era when people didn't talk about sex at home, where a lot of things were unsaid. So you sort of had to read between the lines, to the extent that one could even, oneself, not know what the songs were about. 'Rent's' funny - I was imagining a woman who was being kept by a politician, but when people would ask, what is the missing word between 'I love you' and 'you pay my rent?', I'd say 'I don't know, really.' The title came about because we used to like the idea of provocative titles. That was a punk thing."

The Pet Shop Boys dismissed this at the time as a "mercenary love song."

The video for the song was directed by Derek Jarman. It features two intercut storylines - one filmed in black and white and the other in color. The color part features Liverpool actress Margi Clarke (Letter to Brezhnev) as the partner of a wealthy man, who is played by Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath. Neil Tennant is their chauffeur.

The title implies the lot of a rent boy (a male prostitute), and despite Liza Minelli covering it in 1989, it wasn't until the sleeve notes to the reissue of Actually that Neil Tennant confirmed that this song was written from a female perspective.

Pet Shop Boys - Miracles

Pet Shop Boys - Miracles Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: PopArt
Released: 2003

Miracles Lyrics

Clouds drift away
When they see you
Rain wouldn't dare
To fall near you here
Miracles happen
When you're around
Somehow the grass is much greener
Rivers flow faster and cleaner
Being with you
No matter where
Sunlight breaks through
And suddenly there's

A bluer sky
Whenever you're around
You always bring
A bluer sky
A brighter day

Thunder is silent before you
Roses bloom more to adore you too
Miracles happen
When you're around
The sunset is deeper and longer
The scent of the jasmine is stronger
Stray dogs don't bite
Birds start to sing
Lightening daren't strike
You suddenly bring

A bluer sky
Whenever you're around
You always bring
A bluer sky
A brighter day
Birds fly
Even higher in the sky
Sun shines
It's a new day

Writer/s: RAVENSCROFT,RAF /
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Miracles

This song has a very sad background: A close friend of the Pet Shop Boys lost his lover who committed suicide. The man found it very difficult to forget his lover and the good times they both had together. He told the group that he keeps thinking and dreaming of his dead friend and suddenly he feels that miraculous things happen in his mind because of the presence of the dead friend. That inspired Neil Tennant to write lyrics like "You always bring a bluer sky, a brighter day" and "Miracles happen when you're around."

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Please
Released: 1985

West End Girls Lyrics

West End Girls

Sometimes you're better off dead
There's a gun in your hand
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 mad man 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 in 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
Which do you choose
A hard or soft option

In a West end town a dead end world
Meet East end boys and West end girls
In a West end town in a dead end world
The East end boys and West end girls
West end girls

In a West end town a dead end world
Meet East end boys and West end girls
Ooh a West end town in a dead end world
East end boys and West end girls
West end girls

I've said it all before, I'll say it all again
We're all modern men
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

And 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 got a heart of glass or a heart of stone
Just you wait till I get you home
All your stopping, stalling and starning
Who do you think you are, Joe Stalin
Sometimes you're better off dead
There's gun in your hand
And it's pointing at your head

In a West end town a dead end world
The East end boys and West end girls
In a West end town in a dead end world
East end boys and West end girls
West end girls

West end girls

Writer/s: TENNANT, NEIL / LOWE, CHRISTOPHER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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West End Girls

Tennant said in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "We arrived in the studio and Bobby O had programmed Michael Jackson's Billie Jean drum pattern. Chris started to play along and I started playing chords. In terms of the lyrics, the inspiration for West End Girls came from The Message by Grandmaster Flash. I remember once staying at my cousin's house in Nottingham and we were watching some kind of gangster film with James Cagney, and just as I was dropping off to sleep, the lines 'sometimes you're better off dead, there's a gun in your hand and it's pointing to your head' came into my head and I thought 'that's quite good' so I went off to find a pen."

Another influence was TS Eliot's poem The Wasteland. Said Tennant: "What I like about it is, it's the different voices, almost a sort of collage. All the different voices and languages coming in and I've always found that very powerful. So on West End Girls it's different voices. The line 'Just you wait till I get you home' is a direct quotation."

Recorded in one take, this originally missed the UK Top 40 in 1984, though it made #1 in Belgium. The song was re-recorded with producer Stephen Hague. As Stephen explained, "I heard the Bobby O version and thought it had potential. I felt it should be slowed down and the story told a little clearer. Neil and Chris agreed once they'd heard it." The above 2 quotes are also from 1000 UK #1 Hits.

This won the 1987 BRIT Award for Best Single. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for all above)

Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin

Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Actually
Released: 1987

It's A Sin Lyrics

When I look back upon my life
It's always with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
At school they taught me how be be
So pure in thought and word and deed
They didn't quite succeed.
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common too
It's a, it's a, it's a, It's A Sin
It's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Ever place I've ever been
Every where I'm going to
It's a sin

So I look back upon my life
Forever with a sense of shame
I've always been the one to blame
For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common too
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Ever place I've ever been
Every where I'm going to
It's a sin

Father forgive me
I tried not to do it
Turned over a new leaf
Then tore right through it
What ever you taught me
I didn't believe it
Father you fought me
'Cause I didn't care
and I still don't understand

For everything I long to do
No matter when or where or who
Has one thing in common too
It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a sin
It's a sin
Everything I've ever done
Everything I ever do
Ever place I've ever been
Every where I'm going to
It's a sin It's a sin
It's a, it's a, it's a It's a sin
Writer/s: TENNANT, NEIL / LOWE, CHRISTOPHER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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It's A Sin

Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant was raised Catholic and the lyrics reflect his unfavorable view of the church. This caused a lot of controversy, but got the group plenty of attention and helped make the song a huge hit in the UK.

The ending stanza is sung in Latin and loosely translated it reads: "Father my father, please forgive me for I have sinned, it is my fault, it is my fault." (thanks, Nathaniel - Newark, NY, for above 2)

Tennant wrote the lyrics to get back at some of his teachers at his former school, St. Cuthberts. The teachers said some harsh things about him when the song was released. (thanks, Paul - Potters Bar, England)

Julian Mendelsohn reunited with Pet Shop Boys to produce and engineer most of the songs for the album after doing the same for the track "Suburbia" on the duo's debut album two years before. In a Sound on Sound interview, Mendelsohn explained his job on the Actually album:

"My role as a producer on that album was just getting it all recorded. I also made a few suggestions here and there - you know, 'We can get a better sound for this' or 'Try singing that part again.' In those days, Neil wasn't a great singer and he knew it. So, there was always a bit of work involved in getting his vocals right. He's improved a hell of a lot since then."

In a bid to keep himself focused and the songs fresh, Mendelsohn tried not to labor over any individual track too much, with the exception of "It's a Sin." He explained: "I remember describing a sound or a feel that I was after and sy[synthesizer/keyboard programmer] Andy Richards not quite understanding what I wanted. We were still there at midnight and he was saying, 'Well, what do you want?' My answer was, 'I want it like this, but I can't quite explain,' and there were a couple of times when we got fairly angry and frustrated with each other. I had this thing in my mind: 'I want it like that and I'm going to get it like that.'"

The thunder sound was created on a Roland keyboard.

The Pet Shop boys won a lawsuit against TV presenter Jonathan King after he accused them of stealing the melody from Cat Stevens' 1971 song "Wild World." King even recorded his own cover of that track to prove his point, but it flopped. The duo donated their out-of-court damages to charity.