Pet Shop Boys Lyrics

    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

hi..Iam cilica from Saudi Arbia.. we are a big fans of your song [go west] since we saw it in a playstation game in 2004..we would love to hear it without music because our religion does not allow us to hear music..can you do it , pleasssssssssssse..thanks alot

    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

I've heard this song long time ago but never got to know its name until recently. Just dont understand why the song is gay related.

In addition, I dont think the rhythm has anthing to do with Pachelbel's canon.

    ------ About the song DREAMING OF THE QUEEN performed by Pet Shop Boys

I never thought that I would be able to listen to this song again. It's been more than 20 years since I've bought a casette tape (cd's were more expensive at that time) of the "VERY" album. thank goodness I already have it on my winamp

    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

to PolishGirl1990 | 5/8/09

>Am I the only one who thinks that this song is an irony of West Europe and USA?

masz racje! :)
yep, you might be right! at least, I want to think so. not because I dislike western culture or something (I actually do appreciate western ideology, mindset and way of living. I've been to USA and Canada and REALLY enjoyed being there, and dream of coming back someday), but because irony is a good thing as it helps to stay unprejudiced. there are no just "good" or "bad" things or regimes. even so called "communism" had some advantages (although not so many of them :)) before capitalism. so, this song might really be a good and smart joke about all the political stereotypes...

with best wishes,
Artie, ukraine.

    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

This is about the east and west german estates :) during those times the usa controlled the west which was of course a free place. thats why they say together we will go our way. letting east germans know that together they could rise and outrule dicatorship and the Nazi system :) they also mention the air is free becuase there was much pollution due to the factories the jews gypsies and blacks in the ghetto back then

    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

arturoabraham, you're stupid! have you watched the video? You haven't understood anything. This song was just against the communism in the eastern Europe. And it was right and true to go west to the freedom and hope, for a best future.

    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

Every time I listen to the song suddenly my emotion erupts. I truly wonder how Pet Shop Boys could make such full-of-spirit masterpiece. There seem no way to go back to sadness. I really love this song.

    ------ About the song You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk performed by Pet Shop Boys

Nunca tinha ouvido, quando ouvi pela 1ª vez, fiquei um pouco pensativo, é e verdade a letra diz tudo, quando você as vezes fala por falar é a pessoa entende que é verdadeiro, isso acaba machucando quando não é verdade.

    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

please, next time before you make such judgements about eastern and central europe try not to think in such colonial manner. west became percieved a promise land 1989., not before. as alexei yurchak would say, we lived in "everything was forever until it was no more", in our everyday life we didn't think of the western toys, guys :)) that's just what colonial west likes to think about us.

greetings from ex-yu

    ------ About the song GO WEST performed by Pet Shop Boys

The title comes from a quote attributed to newspaper man and politician Horace Greeley: "Go West, young man, go West, and grow up with the country." Greeley used the phrase in an 1865 editorial in support of his very liberal ideas about colonization of the western frontier of the United States of America where one could take whatever he wanted and make his own rules. It in no way was meant as old world vs. new world, or The East (Asia, Eastern Europe) vs. The West (Western Europe, The Americas).

The song lyrics were written by Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo, and Victor Willis as a Village People original. (Willis was the policeman/lead vocalist of the group.) The song spoke of leaving the uptight, fast-paced, religiously conservative, impersonal east coast of the US and moving to the west coast, specifically San Francisco where gay men from all of the country were flocking to be free and easy and laid back and make their own rules. It in no way was meant as old world vs. new world, or The East (Asia, Eastern Europe) vs. The West (Western Europe, The Americas).

The original performance of "Go West" by Pet Shop Boys was at a 1992 AIDS Benefit concert organized by filmmaker Derek Jarman. In typical fashion, Chris Lowe chose the song because of the ironic and bittersweet nature of such a bold anthem of personal expression and potential hedonism being recorded and celebrated at the very moment that HIV/AIDS was spreading throughout the gay community of the very same San Francisco (and other cities), completely unknown. It in no way was meant as old world vs. new world, or The East (Asia, Eastern Europe) vs. The West (Western Europe, The Americas).

Pet Shop Boys later decided to record their wistful version of the song and produce the much discussed video, acknowledging the facts that had occurred in the 15 years since the original. The video incorporated Soviet imagery, but not as other have described here. The point being made was similar to all the gay men flocking to San Francisco where they would encounter HIV/AIDS -- the Soviet Union had, rather than making its own rules, fallen apart almost immediately leaving the people, at least for the moment, in a worse situation than they had been before.

One note: Saying that "Go West" is a gay-themed song is not homophobic. The song IS a gay-themed song. It was always a gay-themed song. I realize most of the people who write crap like that are fourteen years old and have never left southern Indiana, but come on guys.