I'm With Stupid

About I'm With Stupid

"I'm with Stupid" is a song by British synthpop band Pet Shop Boys and is featured on their 2006 album, Fundamental. It was released 8 May 2006 as the lead single from the album in the United Kingdom and the rest of the European Union (see 2006 in British music). It became the duo's 21st Top 10 single in the UK, peaking at number 8. Though ostensibly about a romantic relationship with a man perceived by the public as a "moron", the song has been acknowledged as being, on another level, about Tony Blair's beleaguered "special relationship" with George W. Bush. The protagonist of the song is eventually brought to wonder if the other's stupidity might not be a front: Is stupid really stupid or a different kind of smart? Do we really have a relationship so special in your heart?It received its official first play 31 March on BBC Radio 2 and on 14 May charted at number eight in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the duo's twenty-first UK top ten single. One of the single's B-sides, "The Resurrectionist", is about body-snatching in the English Regency era, carried out by people literally called "resurrectionists"."I'm with Stupid" was performed on the 23 April 2006 episode of Top of the Pops, in the latest in a long series of Pet Shop Boys performances on the UK music programme. The performance was planned to include six dancers, wearing masks depicting Blair's and Bush's faces. The BBC's editorial department objected, however, citing the need to be politically "impartial"; in the end, only one Blair mask and one Bush mask was used, with the remaining four masks replaced by ones depicting Bill Clinton, David Cameron, Menzies Campbell, and Vladimir Putin. more »

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2006

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[Chorus]
Oh-oh, I'm with Stupid 
Oh-oh, I'm with Stupid 

See you on the TV 
Call you every day 
Fly across the ocean 
Just to let you get your way 
No one understands me 
Where I'm coming from 
Why would I be with someone 
who's obviously so dumb? 
Love comes 
Love grows 
every time you rise to meet me 
take my hand to greet me 
Love comes 
Love grows 
and power can give a man 
much more than anybody knows 

[Chorus: x2]

Before we ever met 
I thought like everybody did 
you were just a moron 
a billion-dollar kid 
You flew up all the way 
like a hawk chasing a dove 
I never thought that I would be 
a sacrifice in love 
It comes 
It grows 
and now we're tied together 
everybody knows 

[Chorus: x2]

Is stupid really stupid 
or a different kind of smart? 
Do we really have a relationship 
so special in your heart? 

[Chorus]
I have to ask myself 
like any lover might: 
Have you made a fool of me? 
Are you not Mr. Right? 
You grin 
I pose 
It's not about sincerity 
Everybody knows 

[Chorus: x2]

Is stupid really stupid 
or a different kind of smart? 
That's how you stole my heart 
I'm with Stupid

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