Pet Shop Boys

Beautiful People

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City life just leaves me weak
all this madness on the street
need to get away today
live my life a different way

Is it only fantasy
to dream about a perfect me?

I wanna live like beautiful people
give like beautiful people
with like beautiful people
around

Buy the latest magazine
and aspire to the dream
perfect home and perfect kids
not a life lived on the skids

Is it only fantasy
or could it be reality?

I wanna live like beautiful people
give like beautiful people
with like beautiful people
around

Now I can see myself
without a care in the world
it's the sun shining
money spending
green and healthy new world

Is it only fantasy
or could it be reality?

I wanna live like beautiful people
give like beautiful people
with like beautiful people
around

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young_jables On Apr 06, 2009

West End Girls

Rent

Being Boring

Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)

It's A Sin

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2009-04-06 05:35:26

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by Deodata

17y ago

ugly and poor people dreaming of glamorous life

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by fredtells

14y ago

I think, this song is about how we all relate to the perfect world created by the advertisement industry. The city-dweller in the song is plagued by the urban life while being surrounded by images on magazines of people going green, looking beautiful, living in perfect houses, with clean and healthy kids. So s/he dreams of this life where things are better, economy has improved, and the world is green - the modern day Utopia.

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