According to Neil, they titled this album 'Please' so that people would walk into the record shop and ask the shopkeeper, "Could I have the new Pet Shop Boys album, Please?" The album tracks, either accidentally or intentionally, seemed to form a storyline. 'We had the idea for the album that it was sort of linked together... They run away in the first song, they arrive in the city, they want to make money, they fall in love, move to suburbia, go out clubbing, there's violence in the city, and casual sex, someone tries to pick up a boy...it does sort of work." Indeed, the lyrics and subject matter within the songs have been observed to relate to both hetero- and homosexual relationships, which was also Neil's intention.