Metamorphosis - Pet Shop Boys

Please allow me to try and explain

I’m living proof that man can change

I knew what I wanted

I knew how to get it It didn’t make it happy so I started again

What I wanted to be was a family man

but nature had some alternative plans

So I did without the lot put emotion on hold

and hoped my instincts would do what they were told

I wanna know yeah

I wanna know

But every now and then

often at night

a particular feeling would surface in spite

of what I told myself and tried to deny

I kept on asking the question: why?

I wanna know yeah

I wanna know

You grow up and experience this

a total metamorphosis

It’s all about change

It’s a metamorphosis

With time and age I had to change

'cause my behaviour was getting strange

People on the street caught my eye

and I began to think I might be their kind of guy

The long-term suppression of an adolescent urge

was in retreat and I was on the verge

of falling in love or having fun

Time was running out

Something had to be done

I wanna know yeah

I wanna know

I wanna know yeah

Tell me what’s the reason

Where was I?

Laying down the law

dancing with others

out on the floor

Music and smoke

What did it mean?

Somebody spoke and I went into a dream

I had what I wanted

madly in love

Nothing else mattered

This was enough

Questions were answered

which used to perplex

in particular those about the big s.e.x.

I wanna know yeah

I wanna know

I wanna know yeah

Tell me what’s the reason

You grow up and experience this

A total metamorphosis

It’s all about love

It’s a metamorphosis

Dreaming is easy

life is tough

I got the picture

The most important thing

is not to end up bitter

'cause when you start to feel

increasingly forlorner

woomph! love comes

right around the corner

It may not last

but here am I once a caterpillar

now a butterfly

It can seem strange

but when you reminisce