Release

Home And Dry

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So my baby's on the road

Doing business, selling loads

Charming everyone there

With the sweetest smile

Oh tonight

I miss you

Oh tonight

I wish you

Could be here with me

But I won't see you

'Til you've made it back again

Home and dry

Home and dry-e-i-e-i

There's a plane at JFK

To fly you back from far away

All those dark and frantic

Transatlantic miles

Oh tonight

I miss you

Oh tonight

I wish you

Could be here with me

But I won't see you

'Til you've made it back again

Home and dry

Home and dry-e-i-e-i

Home and dry

Home and dry-e-i-e-i

Far away

Through night and day

You fly long haul tonight

Come to me

You know I'll be here

When you call tonight

Oh tonight

I miss you

Oh tonight

I wish you

Could be here with me

But I won't see you

'Til you've made it back again

Home and dry

(We're going home)

Home and dry-e-i-e-i

Home and dry

(We're going home)

Home and dry-e-i-e-i

Your baby waits, tonight

I Get Along

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Feeling like I'm stuck in a hole

Body and soul

While you're out of control

Now I know where you had to go

Well, I think we both know

That it had to be so

I've been trying not to cry

When I'm in the public eye

Stuck here with the shame

I'm taking

My share of the blame

While making

Sudden plans that don't include you

I get along, get along

Without you very well

I get along fairly well

I get along, get along

Without you very well

I get along fairly well

Now I know you'd much rather be

With rock royalty

Instead of someone like me

The big boys are back and we need them, you said

Think it was something you'd read

And it stuck in your head

Even though I don't suppose

That's as far as it goes

You've got quite an appetite for

Being wronged and in the right, well

From now on it won't affect me

I get along, get along

Without you very well

I get along fairly well

I get along, get along

Without you very well

I get along fairly well

The morning after the night before

I've been alerted

To your lies

I phoned you up

The calls were all diverted

Took a long time to track you down

Even then you were defiant

It's not what you think it is, you said

And preceded to deny it

So I lost my patience at last

And it happens so fast

You belong in the past

I've been trying not to cry

When I'm in the public eye

Stuck here with the shame

I'm taking

My share of the blame

While making

Sudden plans that don't include you

I get along, get along

Without you very well

I get along fairly well

I get along, get along

Without you very well

I get along fairly well

I get along, get along

Without you very well

I get along fairly well

I get along, get along

Without you very well

I get along fairly well

Birthday Boy

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Birthday boy can't explain

Christmas Eve, he's born again

On the line a broken train

Going nowhere, endless rain

Birthday boy, so afraid

Plays the machines in the arcade

Oh baby, do you remember

He's been through all this before?

Spent the summer

Getting nowhere

Taking all of the blame

For the city

Calculating

From pain comes pity

Christmas Eve, the time of joy

If you believe in Birthday boy

This time around it's all a mistake

Is he deluded or just a fake?

Oh baby, do you remember

He's been through all this before?

Spent the summer

Getting nowhere

Taking all of the blame

For the city

Calculating

From pain comes pity

If you knew his name

Would you feel the same?

If you knew his name?

Birthday boy stands apart

As the drama's about to start

A quick betrayal, a speedy trial

As before complete denial

Oh baby, do you remember

He's been through all this before?

Spent the summer

Getting nowhere

Taking all of the blame

For the city

Calculating

From pain comes pity

If you knew his name

Would you feel the same?

London

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We came from the far North

Summered in Crimea

Deserted the armed forces

Had to disappear

Made it to the free West

On a chartered flight

So we could see what

We trained to fight

We were in London

"Let's do it - let's break the law!"

We were in London

Tell it like it is

We were in London

Tell it like it is

We were in London

Looking for hard work

Or credit card fraud

What do you expect from us?

We come from abroad

To get ourselves a new job

On a building site

They work you so hard, but

We trained to fight

We were in London

"Let's do it - let's break the law!"

We were in London

Tell it like it is

We were in London

"Let's do it - let's break the law!"

We were in London

Tell it like it is

Tell it like it is

My father fought in Afghanistan

His widow's pension ain't worth a damn

My mother works and goes home to cry

I want to live before I die

We were in London

"Let's do it - let's break the law!"

We were in London

Tell it like it is

We were in London

"Let's do it - let's break the law!"

We were in London

Tell it like it is

We were in London

Tell it like it is

Tell it like

Tell it like it is

E-Mail

~~~~~~

Communication's never been

As easy as today

And it would make me happy

When you've gone so far away

If you'd send me an email that says "I love you"

Send me an email that says "I love you"

Now time and distance melt away

No digital delay

And some things can be written down

That we're to shy to say

Send me an email that says "I love you"

Send me an email that says "I love you"

There may be other

Temptations in your life

Don't want to add more

Complications to your life

By sending this email to say "I love you"

By sending this email to say "I love you"

Now there's a ghost within this house

You're haunting me tonight

I'm looking at some photographs

And thinking that I might

Jump on a plane and surprise you where

You are

But do you want me there?

I'm so insecure

But one thing would make me sure

If you'd send me an email that says "I love you"

Send me an email that says "I love you"

Send me an email that says "I love you"

The Samurai In Autumn

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It's not as easy as it was

Or as different as it could be

For the Samurai in autumn

Love Is A Catastrophe

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Love is a catastrophe

Look what it's done to me

Brought me down here so low

Stranded, nowhere to go

No concentration

Just rerunning conversation

Trying to understand

How I fell into this quicksand

What happens next?

With life I'm unimpressed

Pain like a cutter's knife

Never been lonelier in my life

Who issued the instruction

For this mad act of destruction?

An end to equilibrium

Fate laughs: "Look what we've done to him"

High wind through the trees

Falling November leaves

A weak sun hanging low

Summer seems so long ago

All my former dreams

Tender romantic schemes

Revealed as so naive

To think I could believe

In love as the kindest law

Not as a declaration of war

On my life and sanity

Now I know at last for me

Love is a catastrophe

Here

~~~~

We all have a dream of a place we belong

The fire is burning and the radio's on

Somebody smiles and it means "I love you"

But sometimes we don't notice when the dream has come true

You've got a home here

Call it what you want

You've got a home here

To return to when you can't

Face the world and you need

Some support to succeed

You've got a home

We all make a mess of our lives from time to time

It's part of the process that you stumble as you climb

And if you ever feel the pain is far too big a deal

I say with pride I'll be on your side

You've got a home here (you've got a home)

Call it what you want

You've got a home here (you've got a home)

You're gonna want it when you can't

Face the world and you need

Some support to succeed

You've got a home

You've got a home

The Night I Fell In love

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I was backstage

Couldn't believe my luck was in

I saw him approach

Wearing a most approachable grin

When he said "Hello" I was surprised

He spoke so politely

I said I'd liked the show

Well, he just smiled

I guess it happens nightly and so

I fell in love

We went to his room

He had a video camera

I was so nervous

I had to try hard not to stammer

He said: "I'm glad you liked the show

That crowd was dope out there tonight

Alright

You wanna see some more?

Well, be my guest

You can have a private performance"

I'd fallen in love

I didn't ask why

Though he seemed like such a regular guy

He said we could be secret lovers

Just him and me

Then he jokes: "Hey man!

You're name isn't Stan, is it?

We should be together!"

And he was passionate

I guess I would rate

Him a nine out of ten

By then

I'd fallen in love

When I've asked

Why have I heard so much

About him being charged

With homophobia and stuff

He just shrugged

Next morning we woke (secret lovers)

He couldn't have been a nicer bloke

Over breakfast made jokes

About Dre and his homies and folks

Neither of us asked if or when

We would see each other again

But I thought that was cool

'Cause I was already late for school

By then

I'd fallen in love

(Secret lovers)

You Choose

~~~~~~~~~~

He's gone, you've lost

Stay behind and count the cost

You try, you loose

You don't fall in love by chance

You choose

It's a decision made overtime

Should you take the risk and start to climb

The steepest hill only to find

Halfway there you've been left behind?

Choosing to love is risking a lot

And trying to change and to give all you've got

But don't pretend it comes out of the blue

You take a chance and see it through

And if it's refused what can you do?

Continue hopefully? Start a new?

Lick your wounds, buy your booze

You won't get drunk by accident

You'll choose

Don't blame him for refusing your bid

He didn't decide to love

You did

Learn the lesson, take the blows

You didn't fall in love by chance

You choose

Play the sad songs, sing the blues

You don't fall in love by chance

You choose

You choose

'Home and dry' confirms the continuing ambition of Pet Shop Boy's work, capturing within its timeframe their essential allure in a new configuration of love confounded or confirmed, the traumas of modern life, a world made smaller by its technological advancements but made more remote by those same developments. Yet for all its implied sense of loss, 'Home and dry' exhibits a sweet sophistication in the optimism of the returning object of desire (every love, any love); a healing coda to traumatic times expressed in the archly beautiful lines: 'There's a plane at JFK/To fly you home from far away/All those dark and frantic/Transatlantic miles'. It is a sentiment elegantly embodied by Neil Tennant's yearning lead vocal, and counter-pointed by Chris Lowe's subliminal refrain.
Characteristically, 'Home and dry' comes packaged with other new tracks. The ambient mix of CD 2 uses a floating version of the Tennant acapella, with a new chord change from Lowe. The result is an abstract expansion of the original.
The single is available on 2 CDs and DVD single, the DVD featuring the video for "Home and dry".

'I get along',  will be released as the second single from the album.

UK Tracklisting:
CD1
1. I get along (radio edit)
2. Searching for the face of jesus
3. Between two islands
4. Multimedia: I get along (video)
CD2
1. I get along (live)
2. Red letter day (live)
3. Love comes quickly (live)
DVD
1. I get along (video)
2. Friendly Fire
3. Home and dry (Blank and Jones vocal)
International Tracklisting:
CD1
1. I get along (radio edit)
2. Searching for the face of jesus
3. Between two islands
4. Multimedia: I get along (video)
CD2
1. I get along (live)
2. Red letter day (live)
3. Love comes quickly (live)
4. Home and dry (Blank and Jones vocal)
DVD
1. I get along (video)
2. Friendly Fire

London the Pet Shop Boys third single from 'Release'

The tracklisting for CD 1 & 2 are as follows:

CD1
1. London (Berlin radio mix)
2. Positive role model
3. London (Genuine piano mix)

CD2
1. London (WestBam in Berlin mix)
2. London (Thee Radikal Blaklite mix)
3. London (Thee Radikal dub)