Pet Shop Boys - Can You Forgive Her? lyrics

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 pavilion 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?
And ask yourself: Can you even deliver
What she demands of you?

Or do you want revenge?
But that's childish, so childish!