Common lyrical themes

[MikeyC]

THE AIDS EPIDEMIC

It Couldn't Happen Here
Your Funny Uncle
Being Boring
Go West
(a few others I'm not thinking of at the moment)

[Lleonard Pler]

Neil in love!

Liberation
It always comes as a surprise
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing

Pandemonium
Closer to Heaven
Heart

IRONIC PORTRAITS

Flamboyant
Twenty-something
Shameless
Single-Bilingual

UNREQUITED LOVE

For your own good
I'm not scared
You only tell me you love me when you're drunk

[BoyStrange]

History lessons

Don Juan
My October Symphony
King of Rome
Casanova in hell
Various Potemkin tracks

The ressurectionist

Hell

[BoyStrange]

Porn

We all feel better in the dark
Je t'aime... moi non plus
Shouting in the evening

[BoyStrange]

Studies of youth

Sexy Northerner
Twenty-something
Young offender

Boy strange
Bright young things

[Dog]

Studies of youth

Sexy Northerner
Twenty-something
Young offender

Boy strange
Bright young things

Yes - good additions

[JJ Naas]

The death of someone close to the PSB

Your Funny Uncle
Being Boring
Requiem for Denim and Leopardskin
In His Imagination

[Native]

Wonderful topic. You could add to that:

Death

It couldn't happen here
Your funny uncle
The survivors

The biggest theme of all!

Being boring
Leaving

To step aside and Breathing space could read as metaphors for death. Or the death / end of Pet Shop Boys.

Whether intended or not, The dictator decides could be interpreted autobiographically.

Numb.

[Native]

THE AIDS EPIDEMIC

It Couldn't Happen Here
Your Funny Uncle
Being Boring
Go West
(a few others I'm not thinking of at the moment)

Discoteca.
Dreaming of the Queen.

[Native]

Neil in love!

Liberation
It always comes as a surprise
I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing

Yes, definitely a few of these...

Heart
The view from your balcony

Hit and Miss.

[Native]

Studies of youth

Sexy Northerner
Twenty-something
Young offender

Boy strange
Bright young things

Yes - good additions

Paninaro?

[BoyStrange]

AGING

Being boring
Young offender
The ghost of myself
Casanova in hell
Invisible
Your early stuff
Fluorescent
The Pop Kids


...and possibly also

Bright young things
Vocal

(Although there are no explicit evidence in the lyrics of these two songs, I still get a feeling that the narrators are middle-aged persons wishing they were young again.)

[leesmapman]

Studies in loneliness and isolation

Invisible
One of the crowd
I made my excuses and left
I want a dog
The ghost of myself
Love is a catastrophe

Transparent?

[luca857]

What an excellent idea for a thread. We should compile a complete list of songs and tag each of them appropriately.

[jasonjohn]

Suicide pacts

Fugitive
Together

I've often felt "More Than A Dream" is leaning this way:

Do you believe
Heaven is a better place?
We'll be there in a heartbeat