Domino Dancing

Pet Shop Boys

Lyrics

I don't know why, I don't know   ,
I   I loved you but, I'm not sure now,
I've seen you look at   ,
Too many   ,
The love you want is of a   @ kind

All day, all day, Watch them all fall down,
All day, all day, Domino dancing,

Remember when we   the sun,
A love like   ,
How hot it   ,
A threat of distant thunder,
The sky was   ,
And where you walked you always,
Turned ev'ry  

All day, all day, Watch them all fall down,
All day, all day, Domino dancing,

I thought that when we  
I was to   ,
But now I know you play,
A different   ,
I've watched you dance with danger,
Still   more,
Add another   , To the score

All day, all day, Watch them all fall down,
All day, all day, Domino dancing,
When you look   you  
Do you play to win or are you just a bad   ?
All day, all day, All day, all day,

I don't know why, I don't know how,
I thought I loved you but, I'm not sure now,
I hear the   crashing, The sky is dark,
And now a   is breaking, Within my heart.

All day, all day, Watch them all fall down,
All day, all day, Domino dancing,

All day, all day, Watch them all fall down,
All day, all day, Domino dancing,
All day, all day, Watch them all fall down
Legend

Meaning

Neil says that the title of this song was inspired during a stay on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. "In the evening there was nothing to do except play dominoes; this friend of ours [their personal assistant and Chris's roommate, the late Pete Andreas] always used to beat us, and he used to do this celebratory dance." Despite this prosaic origin, "domino dancing" became Neil's metaphor for a love relationship breaking down because of jealousy. As he once described it, he "created a scenario of, you know, a guy going out with a beautiful girl and all the guys are looking at her on the beach in her bikini or whatever and they’re all dropping dead before her because she’s so gorgeous and so consequently he gets jealous and the relationship collapses…."

But this song has also been widely interpreted as a metaphor for what was going on in the early days of the AIDS crisis: carefree young people dancing (a euphemism for sex; at the very least dancing is, as has been observed, "a vertical expression of a horizontal idea") and subsequently collapsing in succession from illness like rows of dominos ( "Watch them all fall down"). Lending some credence to this alternate interpretation, Neil reportedly said of this song, shortly after its release, that it was their "Numbers," referring to a notorious 1983 track by Soft Cell that is indeed about casual sex.

http://www.geowayne.com/newDesign/introspective/domino.htm

Vocabulary

To Threat

Intent to hurt, risk, intimidation
If you tell someone "I am going to kill you," this is an example of a threat.