Domino Dancing Lyrics

Lyric discussion by hemlockroad 

Cover art for Domino Dancing lyrics by Pet Shop Boys

Svengurk is right on the mark on this one but I think the line: "Do you play to win or are you just a bad loser?" is a rhetorical question Neil adresses to the AIDS virus.

To the virus itself? How do you figure? (If so, it would have to be rhetorical, wouldn't it! I mean, since I have certainly never heard of HIV-1 or any other virus developing the capacity for complex language in its single-not-quite-a-cell!)

These days of course, anybody who has unprotected sex, gay or straight, with >1 partner (or with one partner whose virginity cannot be absolutely confirmed, which it never can) will "dance with danger."

Am listening to my old recording of this song...there's a thunderstorm outside in the background which makes it especially poignant.

What about that...