Pet Shop Boys - Love Is A Bourgeois Construct Lyrics

happy valentine's day!
workers of the world unite! #Bernie2020

Instant happy ..

Good Brexit song.

Henry Purcell > Michael Nyman > PetShopBoys

The first 10 seconds or so sound like the beginning of an Enya song. Anyhow, this song is one of PSB's masterpieces.

Rainbow Dash - Love (Exended Mix) (Audio)

Michael Nyman <3 <3

Even for the pet shop boys, this is absolutely terrible.

The were supposed to be just a pop-dance group, but they have the best lyrics of any serious group I've ever heard.

A alguien les qudó las ganas de el tema no se termine??

Me gusta

Hm, no real melody and a distorted voice of Neil next to heart- and headless composed sounds and beats. Was Chris Lowe ill? (where's  his influence? His knowledge?)

Love was constructed by God.

Únicos en el mundo, nadie se les compara y cada nueva canción nos emociona.

still one of the greatest PSB tracks of all time.

Cool song :)

Fantastic Prog-Electro :)

PET SHOP BOYS É SIMPLESMENTE MASSA🎵🎵💅💅🎻🎻😎😎😎

Pet shop boys o melhor de todos os tempos

Richard Für Anelen

Gumball immer Agebrochen von Applejack

Applejack das immer apfel

Halloween immer ghost

very good song

The Greek language distinguishes between at least six different kinds of love: Philia (respect & comradery), eros (either devotional or lustful sexual attraction), agape (love of virtue/god/spirit), storge (affection between parent and child or for a pettable pupper), pragma (the fruit of commitment in a stable relationship) and philautia (self-respect). To have a non-bourgeois, nuanced view of love, you really do have to speak English as a foreign language.

Word salad

Sorry you didn't graduate middleschool.

Interesting!

The first part is interesting but I fail to see its connexion to the second part

This album changed my life forever, still one of their best ones!!

READ ALL MY COMMENTS FOR THE PSB: THIS VOICE WILL NEVER DIE- I DONT CARE HOW OLD U R ... RECOGNIZE!

I'm from Holland and can understand some English, but I don't understand these lyrics. Is it about someone who was in love, but finds out when the love is gone, he gets bored of life and don't believe in love anymore?

Pure gold!!

Starting to be a fan! loving their tracks! "Twenty Something" is nice too!

Their first five albums are amazing.

One of the best music composition of 2000s. I saw them in Philharmonic music hall in Washington DC. Best concert, so much energy and they played all their best new and old songs!

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i love them

Love when they twist and inverse it all... 'Until you come back to me'. Love matters

Communism is a bourgeois construct.

Haha brilliant

Pet shop boys o melhor dos melhores...

The Pet Shop Boys have been doing this for over 35 years now, a truly cerebral lyrical group who incorporates impeccable music and melody. I don't know if there's any other group out there like these guys today. I definitely dub PSB a Supergroup

Thank you Pet Shop Boys for keeping giving us beautiful songs ❤️💜🎵

They are the best group of the world thanx for living here in this planet

I loved to the pet shop boys from México

"You won't see me with a bunch of roses promising fatality" - now that's a misheard lyric waiting to be found. ;)

Good lyrics, bad music, and I usually love the PSBs.

What daft punk song does this remind me of???

another masterpiece

Ain’t that tbe truth

Pet Shop Boys is a Bourgeois Construct. Same blasé shite for 30 years.

I haven't heard such an amazing fusion of orchestral and dance since I heard Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat.

If they were left to their own devices...

They probably would.

Came here for the Communist workout tunes! Thanks!

okay i know i'm a hopeless romantic but big mood

PSBOYS WTF KINDA TRASH IS THIS I EXPECT MUCH BETTER FROM YOU EVEN ON YOUR MOST PEDESTRIAN EFFORTS!

Well done...

I heard this on the radio at work ant thought another crap tune. But I was intrigued and listened to it properly tonight. Its great, I love it!

One of the smartest songs in years: "all the schadenfreude it's cost
calculating what you've lost."

Easily a top 3 psb song for moi
When Neil and Chris fart it blows melody from their asses .
This song sits in your head and can only be removed by chopping it off
Psb are a happy pill that seeps in through your ears that makes Prozac feel like a smirk

I've been taking my time for a long time
Putting my feet up a lot
Speaking English as a foreign language
any words that I haven't forgot
I've been thinking how I can't be bothered
to wash the dishes or remake the bed
What's the point when I could doss instead?

I've been hanging out with various riff-raff
somewhere on the Goldhawk Road
I don't think it's gonna be much longer
'til I'm mugging up on the penal code
Love is a bourgeois construct
so I've given up on the bourgeoisie
Like all their aspirations, it's a fantasy.

When you walked out you did me a favour
you made me see reality
that love is a bourgeois construct
It's a blatant fallacy
You won't see me with a bunch of roses
promising fidelity
Love doesn't mean a thing to me.

Talking tough and feeling bitter
but better now it's clear to me
that love is a bourgeois construct
so I've given up the bourgeoisie.

While the bankers all get their bonuses
I'll just get along with what I've got
Watching the weeds in the garden
Putting my feet up a lot
I'll explore the outer limits of boredom
moaning periodically
Just a full-time, lonely layabout
that's me.

When you walked out you did me a favour
It's absolutely clear to me
that love is a bourgeois construct
just like they said at university
I'll be taking my time for a long time
with all the schadenfreude it's cost
calculating what you've lost.

Now I'm digging through my student paperbacks
Flicking through Karl Marx again
Searching for the soul of England
Drinking tea like Tony Benn
Love is just a bourgeois construct
so I'm giving up the bourgeoisie 
until you come back to me.

Talking tough and feeling bitter
but better now it's clear to me
that love is a bourgeois construct
so I've given up the bourgeoisie.

Only second to "Heart"

It sounds like if Suburbia and Go West had a baby. Awesome track!

I agree that love is nothing more than a bourgeois construct

It's just a worn out hollow word.

The most overused lie ... smh

You said it. At least that's been my experience. And superficial as well. I'm totally jaded.

We have to seize the means of love and distribute it evenly, comrade

LOVE FEREVER PET SHOP BOYS.........

I can't say how much I love this song. Firstly, the music in itself is brilliant, particularly with the 'sample' of Henry Purcell/Michael Nyman (which really brings that 'bourgeois' touch to the song, of course, hehe). But also : the lyrics. I love them ; they're hilarious and very clever !

sample my ass, it was the whole fukking thing

I 💜 PSB :) 🇲🇽

One of their most underrated tracks but still brilliant to listen to !

They are musicians, not gay. That's my final verdict)

Aziz Azizov Uhh. Thanks for your expert opinion and for speaking on their behalf

people can be both, aziz

tell that to their a....holes

😍😍😍

it's raining cats and dogs......

I've had this song in my head all day! Last night I was watching a video of Michael Nyman's Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds and somebody mentioned this song in the comments! It was all over radio 2 a couple of years ago!

J'adore! J'adore! J'adore! A m'en éclater les tympans!

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Fantastic Pet Shop Boys Forever!!!

EXCELENTE TEMA....

"Explore the outer limits of boredom, moaning periodically." :0)

Sounds like a Morrissey lyric. Not like PSB hasn't taken swipes at The Moz before. ("Miserablism")

Pet Shop Boys são eternos.

THIS BROUGHT THE PSB BACK TO ME! THANK YOU NEIL AND CHRIS!

PSB played this song in Miami Beach on the Super Tour!

This is their best song.

It sounds like Suburbia on steroids, and with a Michael Nyman track! :)

It really reminds Suburbia...

I disagree. This is its own thing.

just replenish my cd collection buying psb singles cost me a fortune but worth it and this one was one of them
good song. 😎😎

My favorite song off Electric, one of your best albums yet!

Die-hard PSB fan here, but I have to say it's the only good song on Electric. To me, anything after "Bilingual" had too much filler.

Peculate version is better, of course with diffrent lyrics

Pet Shop Boys :D <3

The rhythm is nice, the voice is cool, the lyrics are basically communist propaganda.

LOL! 😆

This song is totally about capitalism

Three out of three. Perfect score.

But it's true. I mean, under a socio-anthropological point of view, love as well as everything human-related has been constructed and manipulated by our own culture.

"Communist propaganda"? I disagree. To me its more like a parody of young leftist students' often laughable naive idealism

one of the best songs on this album is my favorite widely recommend
!!!!!!!

Wow!!! What a great song!!!! The beginning is a masterpiece!

Which is likewise based in a excerpt from a Henry Purcell's opera from the 17th century

I didn't know it, thanks for telling me.

Really? 17th century? That's incredible!

The first few seconds remind me a bit of an Enya song

That's right, but the true master's name is Henry Purcell. However, the text of this song IS a masterpiece.

Two of my favourite producers of music in one; Michael Nyman and the Pet Shop Boys :)

This is the best songs of theirs I've heard in years!

i love this

I love the pet shop boys my mum loved there music to my surprise knowing full well they're gay

You were probably conceived to the tune of Pet Shop Boys.

That´s Michael Nyman! The draughtman´s contract

Pet shop boys is the best

One of their best songs !

I love you !!! and Thank you ! ＼(^-^)／

i loveee youu pet shop boys ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ desde Guatemala

I love this song also. Looking forward to the next album 'Power' april the 1.

I think that's "Super"

+M.B. QuackBarc You're absolute correct. I must have thinking about something else while I wrote this comment or tired :-)But still looking forward to the next album arriving as a Little late birthday present to me.

It could have been the title because it's a powerful album. Can't wait for the next single (say it to me) and the next album.

I love Pet Shop boys a lot! specially Neil Tennant he is a gentleman and cute!

I totally agree: I mean, "Is he gorgeous or what!"

I'm a straight male, yet I have to say: abso-friggin-lutely! :)

Been rocking to you boys for almost 30 years! Thank you♡♡♡

Sean Murphy 😁

muy buen tema