A Powerful Friend - Pet Shop Boys

He’s got a powerful friend

Who owes him nothing and knows how to spend

Lives in his apartment for free

Waits on the table at tea

Whips up the coffee and cream

Sometimes cries or he’d scream

Phones for the grocery van

The milkman delivers and the newspapers land

When he gets home overnight

His old man mutters and puts up a fight

Over some political scheme

Sometimes cries or he’d scream

Spends all his days en coucher

There’s absolutely nothing new to do but delay

The plan to take a different stand

When pizza boys deliver what he needs on demand

Eyes lit with a nicotine gleam

Sometimes cries or he’d scream