Can you forgive her

"Can you forgive her?" is a cover song released by LorD and Master and originally written by Pet Shop Boys. Though Neil Tennant described it as "a song about sex", it is about a woman who mocks her boyfriend because he dances to disco and doesn't like rock, implying his homosexuality. The LorD and Master version includes an additional ending line ("it's so bloody childish") which first appeared in 1999 during the Nightlife tour by Pet Shop Boys.

Lyrics

Another night
With open eyes
Too late to sleep and
Too soon to rise

You're short of breath
It is 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 made 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 a 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
Ask yourself can you even deliver
What she demands of you?
Or do you want revenge?
But that's childish, so childish
It's so bloody childish

Versions

• Appears on Obviously.

Personnel

• Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
• Produced and performed by Daniel Bailey-Graham.