West End Town a Dead End World

[alcibiades_mystery]

East End boys and West End girls...

Just sayin'...

[u4ic]

1. I've got the brains

you've got the looks;

Let's make lots of money...

[idgiehkt]

2. Love those Pet Shop Boys

which is better, the west end or the east end?

I watch Eastenders all the time and those folks are all so fucked up it's scary.

[u4ic]

3. West end!

Theatre district. :D

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. 't's a fookin' wanker'd say that, idint it?

West End? Goin' 'ome in a London am-bulance behind it, skag.

[IsIt1984Yet]

4. Wow, I haven't seen that video in forever!

Look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-TJ_VIJYhU

'member? :D

[idgiehkt]

9. yes!

thanks for posting this.

I miss the days when guys wore makeup and trench coats. My generation had it so good and we didn't even know it.

[IsIt1984Yet]

11. mmmm... make-up and trenchcoats

describes my first love... and funky cool geometric haircuts and combat boots... :loveya:

[idgiehkt]

14. oh hell yes how could I forget the combat boots.

damn, I'd give anything to appreciate what I grew up in. Where are the Boy Georges now? The Madonnas, the Dead or Alives, the Sinead O'Connors?

Man, those folks put some sledgehammers through some mental walls in the 80s and early 90's. Who is doing that now? Anyone at all? What does Paris Hilton sing about? Discrimination against the rich?

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. She filled my head with the awful noise of her disappointment

and the Pet Shop Boys...

- Billy Bragg

[Ava]

6. i heard that song today!

:hi:

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. That's Freaky Deaky

Nobody's heard that song in 10 years, yet you hear it today, and I post it, for no fucking apparent reason.

Oy.

[Ava]

10. it's a conspiracy!

:P

[WCGreen]

12. I hear it all the time...

In my head...

I can't get it out...

The droning beat....

The way they captured Al Stewert's voice, intonation....

If only they could have captured his way with words.....

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Way with words? Are you kidding?

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?

:rofl:

[WCGreen]

15. Not those two Wham wanna bees.....

My man Al...

Em D Em
They crossed over the border the hour before dawn

D Cmaj7
Moving in lines through the day

G D Am
Most of our planes were destroyed on the ground where they lay

Em D Em
Waiting for orders we held in the wood

D Cmaj7
Word from the front never came

G D Am
By evening the sound of the gunfire was miles away

E Fmaj7
Ah softly we move through the shadows, slip away through the trees

E Fmaj7
Crossing their lines in the mists in the fields on our hands and our
knees

C G C G E
And all that I ever, was able to see

Am G Fmaj7 G Fmaj7
Em
The fire in the air, glowing red, silhouetting the smoke on the breeze

D Em
All summer they drove us back through the Ukraine

D Cmaj7
Smolensk and Viasma soon fell

G D Am
By autumn we stood with our backs to the town of Orel

Em D Em
Closer and closer to Moscow they come

D Cmaj7
Riding the wind like a bell

G D Am
General Guderian stands at the crest of the hill

E Fmaj7
Winter brought with her the rains, oceans of mud filled the roads

E Fmaj7
Glueing the tracks of their tanks to the ground while the sky filled
with snow

C G C G E
And all that I ever, was able to see

Am G Fmaj7 G Fmaj7
The fire in the air glowing red, silhouetting the snow on the breeze.

Am G Fmaj7
Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhhh x4

Am G
Fmaj7
In the footsteps of Napoleon the shadow figures stagger through the
winter

Am G
Fmaj7
Falling back before the gates of Moscow, standing in the wings like an
avenger

Am G Fmaj7
And far away behind their lines the partisans are stirring in the
forest

Am G Fmaj7
Coming unexpectedly upon their outposts growing like a promise

Am G
You'll never know, you'll never know which way to turn, which way to
look

Fmaj7
you'll never see us

Am G
As we're stealing through the blackness of the night, you'll never know

Fmaj7
you'll never hear us

G Fmaj7 E Fmaj7
And the evening sings in a voice of amber the dawn is surely coming

G Fmaj7 E Fmaj7
Em
The morning road leads to Stalingrad and the sky is, softly humming

D Em
Two broken tigers on fire in the night

D Cmaj7
Flicker their souls to the wind

G D Am
We wait in the lines for the final approach to begin

Em D Em
It's been almost four years that I've carried a gun

D Cmaj7
At home it will almost be spring

G D Am
The flames of the tigers are lighting the road to Berlin

E Fmaj7
Ah, quickly we move through the ruins that bow to the ground

E Fmaj7
The old men and children they throw out to face us, they can't slow us
down

C G C G E
And all that I ever, was able to see

Am G Fmaj7 G Fmaj7
The eyes of the city are opening now it's the end of the dream

Am G Fmaj7
Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh x4

Am G
Fmaj7
I'm coming home, I'm coming home, you can taste it in the wind the war
is over

Am G
Fmaj7
And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the
border

Am G
Fmaj7
And they ask me of the time I was caught behind their lines and taken
prisoner

Am G
Fmaj7
They only held me for a day a lucky break, I say, they turn and listen
closer

Am G
I'll never know, I'll never know why I was taken from the line

Fmaj7
and all the others

Am G Fmaj7
To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia

G Fmaj7 E
Fmaj7
And it's cold and damp in the transit camp and the air is still and
sullen

G Fmaj7 E Fmaj7
The pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming

G Fmaj7 E Fmaj7
And I wonder when I'll be home again, and the morning answers, never

G Fmaj7 E
And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on

Fmaj7 F
For-ev-er.

[LSdemocrat]

16. They just played that video on The Tube about 30 minutes ago

[idgiehkt]

17. kreeeepy

synchronicity

(don't take that as an endorsement of Sting or the Police, please, it's just a word relevant to the occurrence of simultaneous West End Girls phenomena)

[Hissyspit]

18. It's an endorsement of Jung. n/t