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Liberation is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released as the fourth single from their fifth studio album, Very (1993). It peaked at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the lowest-charting single from Very in the United Kingdom.
Critical reception:
Music writer James Mastert...
[Verse 1]
Take my hand
I've changed my mind again
Really, I believed it true
That all who fell in love were foolish
But I was wrong
I've learned that lesson well
All the way back home at midnight
You were sleeping on my shoulder
[Chorus]
Take my hand
Don't think of obligations
Now, right now
Your love is liberation
[Verse 2]
To free in me
The trust I never dared
I always thought the risk too great
But suddenly I don't hesitate so
[Chorus]
Take my hand
Don't think of complications
Now, right now
Your love is liberation
Liberation
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
The night, the stars
A light shone through the dark
All the way back home at midnight
You were sleeping on my shoulder
[Chorus]
Take my hand
Don't think of hesitation
Now, right now
Your love is liberation
Liberation
[Interlude]
[Outro]
Back home at midnight
All the way back home at midnight
Liberation was written by Chris Lowe & Neil Tennant.
Liberation was produced by Pet Shop Boys.
Pet Shop Boys released Liberation on Mon Sep 27 1993.
The song is trying to reconcile the idea in a relationship that you are liberated, because you feel fabulous because of the love, with the idea that you also feel constricted and obligated. It’s one of my ‘live for today’ songs”.
–Neil Tennant, from the Pet Shop Boys website.
Yes! Containing the distorted/merged faces of Tennant and Lowe modelled in 3D alongside other elements of imagery from the Very era, the video was directed by Howard Greenhalgh.