West End Girls
Pet Shop Boys
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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
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Written by: Neil Tennant, Christopher Lowe
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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10 facts about this song
Song Background"West End Girls" is a song by British duo Pet Shop Boys from their debut studio album Please (1986).
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Chart Performance"West End Girls" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1986 and number one in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 1986.
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Critical AcclaimIn 1987, the song won the award for Best Single at the Brit Awards, and in 2005, was voted number 1 in the Top 50 singles of the 1980s by viewers of VH1.
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Song InspirationThe lyrics of the song were largely inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, specifically the line 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust'.
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First ReleaseThe song was first released in April 1984 through independent label Bobcat Records but gained little attention and wasn't a success.
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Re-ReleaseThe song was re-recorded and re-released in October 1985 after the band signed with Parlophone Records, and this version became a global hit.
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Music VideoThe iconic music video for the song was filmed in various locations in London, including outside the Palace Theatre, the docks in Isle of Dogs and Greenwich.
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Song Meaning"West End Girls" is about class and the pressures of inner-city life which were inspired by the tensions and uncertainties of the Cold War era.
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CollaborationThe song is a result of collaboration between Pet Shop Boys and music producer Stephen Hague.
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Legacy"West End Girls" has been covered by various artists and also been used in video games such as Grand Theft Auto V.
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