Can You Forgive Her? - Pet Shop Boys

(Tennant/Lowe)
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Another night with open eyes
Too late to sleep, too soon to rise
You're short of breath, is it a heart attack?
Hot and feverish you face the fact

    You're in love, and it feels like shame
    Because she's gone and made a fool of you in public again
    You're in love, and it feels like pain
    Because you know there's too much truth in everything she claims

         So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
         If she wants you to?
         Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
         What she demands of you?

You drift into the strangest dreams
Of youthful follies and changing teams
Admit you're wrong, oh, no, not yet
Then you wake up and remember that you can't forget

    She's made you some kind of laughing stock
    Because you dance to disco, and you don't like rock
    She'd make fun of you, and even in bed
    Said she was gonna go and get herself a real man instead

         So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
         If she begs you to?
         Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
         What she demands of you?
         Or do you want revenge?
         But that's childish, so childish!
         (But that's childish, so childish!)

Remember when you were more easily led
Behind the cricket pavillion and the bicycle shed
Trembling as your dreams came true
You looked right into those blue eyes and knew

    It was love, and now you can't pretend
    You've forgotten all the promises of that first friend
    It's bad enough, she knows how you feel
    But she's not prepared to share you with the memory

         So ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
         If she begs you to?
         Ask yourself: Can you even deliver
         What she demands of you?
         Ask yourself now: Can you forgive her
         If she begs you to?