Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls - more from the electronic pop era

Again when younger, I hadn't a clue.

"In a West End town, a dead end world" I heard as "In a West End town, in Danworth".

He does have to sing that bit quite fast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_Girls

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waste_Land
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1321/1321-h/1321-h.htm

"T.S. Eliot’s cultural clusterfuck and middle finger to the stripped-down simplicity of the Imagists."

"The style is often described as “fragmented” or collage-like. This kind of fragmentation, as variously practiced by Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and others, was one of the defining features of Modernist poetry in English."

"Inspired in part by James Joyce’s Ulysses" "Eliot wanted to write a poem structured around an even more timeless story: that of the vegetation deity," (The Fisher King?) "which dies and reincarnates according to the seasons and their associated fertility. Eliot applies this scheme to modern life, with “fertility” corresponding roughly to “sexual passion” or “lust for life.”"

Annotated/Commented Waste Land: 

http://rapgenius.com/Ts-eliot-the-waste-land-lyrics#note-853067

http://rapgenius.com/Ts-eliot-notes-on-the-waste-land-lyrics

Pet Shop Boys West End Girls Lyrics
Songwriters: TENNANT, NEIL / LOWE, CHRISTOPHER
(....forever)

Sometimes you're better off dead
There's gun in your hand and 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 madman 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, 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?
And which do you choose, a hard or soft option?
(How much do you need?)

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

(How much do you need?)

In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
Oooh West End town, a dead end world
East End boys, West End Girls
West End girls

You've got a heart of glass or a heart of stone
Just you wait 'til I get you home
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
(How far have you been?)

In a West End town, a dead end world
The East End boys and West End girls
A West End town, a dead end world
East End Boys, West End girls
West End girls

West End girls

West End girls
(How far have you been?)

Girls
East End boys
And West End girls
And West End girls
(... forever)
And West End girls
(How far have you been?)

East End boys
The West End girls
The West End boys
And West End girls

The West End girls
The West End boys
The West End girls