Reel Around the Fountain

Reel Around The Fountain ("Smiths", "Hatful")

It’s time the tale were told

Of how you took a child

And you make him old

Reel around the fountain

Slap me on the patio

I’ll take it now

Fifteen minutes with you

Well, I wouldn’t say no

People said that you were virtually dead

And they were so wrong

Fifteen minutes with you

Well, I wouldn’t say no

People said that you were easily led

And they were half-right

I dreamt about you last night

And I fell out of bed twice

You can pin and mount me like a butterfly

But take me to the haven of your bed

Was something you never said

Two lumps, please

You’re the bee’s knees

But so am I

Meet me at the fountain

Shove me on the patio

I’ll take it slowly

Fifteen minutes with you

Oh, I wouldn’t say no

People see no worth in you

Oh, but I do.

You’ve Got Everything Now ("Smiths", "Hatful")

As merry as the days were long

I was right and you were wrong

Back at the old grey school

I would win and you would lose

But you’ve got everything now

And what a terrible mess I’ve made of my life

No, I’ve never had a job

Because I never wanted one

I’ve seen you smile

But I’ve never really heard you laugh

So who is rich and who is poor?

I cannot say...

You are your mother’s only son

And you’re a desperate one

But I don’t a lover

I just want to be seen in the back of your car

A friendship sadly lost?

Well, this is true ... and yet, it’s false

Did I ever tell you by the way

I never did like your face

But you’ve got everything now

And what a terrible mess I’ve made of my life

No, I’ve never had a job

Because I’m too shy

But I don’t a lover

I just want to be tied to the back of your car.

Miserable Lie ("Smiths")

So, goodbye

Please stay with your own kind

And I’ll stay with mine

There’s something against us

It’s not time

So, goodbye

I know I need hardly say

How much I love your casual way

But please put your tongue away

A little higher and we’re well away

The dark nights are drawing in

And your humour is as black as them

I look at yours, you laugh at mine

And "love" is just a miserable lie

You have destroyed my flower-like life

Not once - but twice

You have corrupt my innocent mind

Not once - but twice

I know the wind-swept mystical air

It means: I’d like to see your underwear

I recognise that mystical air

It means: I’d like to seize your underwear

What do we get for our trouble and pain?

Just a rented room in Whalley Range

Into the depths of the criminal world

I followed her...

I need advice, I need advice

Because nobody ever looks at me twice

I’m just a country-mile behind

The world

I’m just a country-mile behind

The whole world

So take when you go.

Pretty Girls Make Graves ("Smiths")

Upon the sand, upon the bay

"There is a quick and easy way" you say

Before you illustrate

I’d rather state

"I’m not the man you think I am

I’m not the man you think I am"

And Sorrow’s native son

He will not smile for anyone

And pretty girls make graves

End of the pier, end of the bay

You tug my arm and say: "Give in to lust,

Give up to lust, oh heaven knows we’ll

soon be dust..."

But I’m not the man you think I am

I’m not the man you think I am

And pretty girls make graves

I could have been wild and I could have been free

But Nature played this trick on me

She wants it Now

And she will not wait

But she’s too rough

And I’m too delicate

Then, on the sand

Another man, he takes her hand

A smile lights up her stupid face

(And well, it would)

I lost my faith in Womanhood

I lost my faith.

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle ("Smiths")

Please don’t cry

The ghost and the storm outside

Will not invade this sacred shrine

Nor infiltrate your mind

My life down and I shall lie

If the bogey-man should try

To play tricks on your sacred mind

To tease, torment and tantalise

Wavering shadows loom

A piano plays on an empty room

There’ll be blood on the cleaver tonight

When darkness lifts and the room is bright

I’ll still be by your side

For you are all that matters

And I’ll love you till the day I die

There never need be longing in your eyes

As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine

Ceiling shadows shimmy by

And when the wardrobe towers like a beast of prey

There’s sadness in your beautiful eyes

Your untouched, unsoiled, wonderous eyes

My life down and I shall lie

Should the restless spirits try

To play tricks on your sacred mind

I once had a child, it saved my life

But whom I never even gave a name

I just looked into his wondrous eyes

and said "never, never, never again"

All too soon I did return

Just like a moth to a flame

So ratle my bones all over the stones

Because I’m only a beggar-man whom nobody owns

See how words as old as sin

Fit me like a glove

I’m here and here I’ll stay

Together we lie, together we pray

There never need be longing in your eyes

As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine.

This Charming Man ("Smiths, "Hatful")

Punctured bicycle

On a hillside desolate

Will nature make a man of me yet?

When in this charming car

This charming man

Why pamper life’s complexities

When the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

I would go out tonight

But I haven’t got a stitch to wear

This man said "it’s gruesome

That someone so handsome should care"

A jumped-up pantry boy

Who never knew his place

He said "return the ring"

He knows so much about these things

He knows so much about these things.

Still Ill ("Smiths", "Hatful", "Rank")

I decree today that life

Is simply taking and not giving

England is mine and it owes me a living

Ask me why, and I’ll spit in your eye

But we cannot cling to the old dreams anymore

No, we cannot cling to those dreams

Does the body rule the mind

Or does the mind rule the body?

I dunno...

Under the iron bridge we kissed

And although I ended up with sore lips

It just wasn’t like the old days anymore

No, it wasn’t like those days

Am I still ill?

Does the body rule the mind

Or does the mind rule the body?

I dunno...

Ask me why, and I’ll die

And if you must go to work tomorrow

Well, if I were you I wouldn’t bother

For there are brighter sides to life

And I should know because I’ve seen them

But not very often...

Under the iron bridge we kissed

And although I ended up with sore lips

It just wasn’t like the old days anymore

No, it wasn’t like those days

Am I still ill?

Hand In Glove ("Smiths", "Hatful", "Louder")

Hand in glove

The sun shines out of our behinds

No, it’s not like any other love

This one is different - because it’s us

Hand in glove

We can go wherever we please

And everything depends upon

How near you stand to me

And if the people stare

Then the people stare

I really don’t know and I really don’t care

Hand in glove

The Good People laugh

Yes, we may be hidden by rags

But we have something they’ll never have

So, hand in glove I stake my claim

I’ll fight to the last breath

If they dare touch a hair on your head

I’ll fight to the last breath

The Good Life is out there, somewhere

So stay on my arm, you little charmer

But I know my luck too well

And I’ll probably never see you again

What Difference Does It Make? ("Smiths", "Hatful")

All men have secret and here is mine

So let it be known

We have been through hell and high tide,

I can surely rely on you?

And yet you start to recoil,

Heavy words are so lightly thrown

But still I’d leap in front of a flying bullet for you

So, what difference does it make?

It makes none

But you have gone

And you must be looking very old tonight

The devil will find work for idle hands to do

I stole and I lied, and why?

Because you asked me to!

But now you make me feel so ashamed

Because I’ve only got two hands

Well, I’m still fond of you

So, what difference does it make?

It makes none

But you have gone

And your prejudice won’t keep you warm tonight

So, no more apologies

No more apologies

I’m too tired

I’m too sick and tired

And I’m feeling very sick and ill today

But I’m still fond of you.

I Don’t Owe You Anything ("Smiths")

Bought on stolen wines

A nod was the first step

You knew very well

What was coming next

Did I really walk all this way

Just to hear you say

"Oh I don’t want to go out tonight"

I don’t owe you anything

But you owe me something

Repay me now

You should never go to them

Let them come to you

Just like I do

You should never go to them

Let them come to you

Just like I do

Too freely on your lips

Words prematurely sad

Oh but I know what will make you smile tonight

Life is never kind

Oh but I know what will make you smile tonight.

Suffer Little Children ("Smiths")

Over the moors, take me to the moors

Dig a shallow grave

And I’ll lay me down

Lesley-Anne, with your pretty white beads

Oh John, you’ll never be a man

And you’ll never see your home again

Oh Manchester, so much to answer for

Edward, see those alluring lights

Tonight will be your very last night

A woman said "I know my son is dead

I’ll never rest my hands on his sacred head"

Hindley wakes and Hindley says:

"Wherever he has gone, I have gone"

But fresh lilaced moorland fields

Cannot hide the stolid stench of death

Hindley wakes and Hindley says:

"Whatever he has done, I have done"

But this is no easy ride

For a child cries:

"Find me ... find me, nothing more

We’re on a sullen misty moor

We may be dead and we may be gone

Be we will be right by your side

Untill the day you die

This is no easy ride

We will haunt you when you laugh

Yes, you could say we’re a team

You might slee

BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM!"

Oh Manchester, so much to answer for

Over the moor, I’m on the moor

The child is on the moor.

William, It Was Really Nothing ("Hatful", Louder")

The rain falls hard on a humdrum town

This town has dragged you down

Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town

This town has dragged you down

And everybody’s got to live their life

And God knows I’ve got to live mine

God knows I’ve got to live mine

William, William it was really nothing

How can you stay with a fat girl who’ll say:

"Would you like to marry me

And if you like you can buy the ring"

She doesn’t care about anything

Would you like to marry me

And if you like you can buy the ring

I don’t dream about anyone

William, William it was really nothing

William, William.

These Things Take Time ("Hatful", "Louder")

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wunderkind

You took me behind a dis-used railway line

And said "I know a place where we can go

Where we are not known"

And then you gave me something that I won’t forget too soon

But I can’t believe that you’d ever care

And this is why you’ll never care

But these things take time

And I know that I’m

The most inept

That ever stepped

I’m spellbound, but a woman divides

And the hills are alive with celibate cries

But you know where you came from, you know where

You’re going and you know where you belong

You said I was ill, and you were not wrong

But I can’t believe that you’d ever care

And so, you never cared

But these things take time

And I know that I’m

The most inept

That ever stepped

Oh the alcoholic afternoons

When we sat in your room

They meant more to me

Than any living thing on earth

They had more worth

Than any living thing on earth

Vivid and in your prime

You will leave me behind

You will leave me behind.

How Soon Is Now? ("Hatful", "Meat")

I am the son

And the heir

Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

I am the son and heir

Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth

How can you say

I go about things the wrong way

I am Human and I need to be loved

Just like everybody else does

I am the son

And the heir

Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar

I am the son and heir

Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth

How can you say

I go about things the wrong way

I am Human and I need to be loved

Just like everybody else does

There’s a club if you’d like to go

You could meet somebody who really loves you

So you go, and you stand on your own

And you leave on your own

And you go home, and you cry

And you want to die

When you say it’s gonna happen "now"

Well, when exactly do you mean?

See I’ve already waited too long

And all my hope is gone.

Handsome Devil ("Hatful")

All the streets are crammed with things

Eager to be held

I know what hands are for

And I’d like to help myself

You ask me the time

But I sense something more

And I would like to give you

What I think you’re asking for

You handsome devil

Let me get my hands

On your mammary glands

Let me get your head

On the conjugal bed

I say, I say, I say

I crack the whip

And you skip

But you deserve it

A boy in the bush

Is worth two in the hand

I think I can help you get through your exams

(refrain)

And when we’re in scholarly room

Who will swallow whom?

(refrain)

There’s more to life than books, you know

But not much more.

Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now ("Hatful", "Louder")

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour

But heaven knows I’m miserable know

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job

And heaven knows I’m miserable now

In my life

Why do I give valuable time

To people who don’t care if I live or die

Two lovers entwined pass me by

And heaven knows I’m miserable now

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job

And heaven knows I’m miserable now

In my life

Why do I give valuable time

To people who don’t care if I live or die

What she asked of me at the end of the day

Caligula would have blushed

"You’ve been in the house too long" she said

And I naturally fled

In my life

Why do I smile

At people who I’d much rather kick in the eye

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour

And heaven knows I’m miserable now

"You’ve been in the house too long" she said

And I naturally fled

In my life

Why do I give valuable time

To people who don’t care if I live or die.

This Night Has Opened My Eyes ("Hatful", "Louder")

In a river the colour of lead

Emerse the baby’s head

Wrap her up in the News Of The World

Dump her on a doorstep, girl

This night has opened my eyes

And I will never sleep again

You kicked and cried like a bullied child

A grown man of twenty-five

He said he’d cure your ills

But he didn’t and he never will

So, save your life

Because you’ve only got one

The dream has gone

But the baby is real

Oh you did a good thing

She could have been a poet

Or, she could have been a fool

Oh you did a bad thing

And I’m not happy

And I’m not sad

A shoeless child on a swing

Reminds you of your own again

She took away your troubles

Oh but them again

She left pain

So, save your life

Because you’ve only got one

The dream has gone

But the baby is real

Oh you did a good thing

She could have been a poet

Or, she could have been a fool

Oh you did a bad thing

And I’m not happy

And I’m not sad.

Accept Yourself ("Hatful")

Everyday you must say

Oh how do I feel about my life

Anything is hard to find

When you will not open your eyes

When will you accept yourself?

I am sick and I am dull

And I am plain

How dearly I’d love to get carried away

But dreams have a knack of just not coming true

And time is against me now

Who and what to blame?

Anything is hard to find

When you will not open your eyes

When will you accept yourself?

Anything is hard to find

When you will not open your eyes

Everyday you must say

How do I feel about the past

Others conquered love - but I ran

I sat in my room and I drew up a plan

But plans can fall through as so often they do

And time is against me now

And there’s no one left to blame

Tell me when will you

When will you accept your life

The one that you hate

Anything is hard to find

When you will not open your eyes

Everyday you must say

How do I feel about my shoes

They make me awkward and plain

Hoe dearly I would love to kick with the fray

But I once had a dream and it never came true

And time is against me now

And there’s no one but yourself to blame

Anything is hard to find

When you will not open your eyes

When will accept yourself?

Girl Afraid ("Hatful", "Louder")

Girl afraid

Where do his intentions lay?

Or does he even have any?

She says:

"He never really looks at me

I give him every opportunity

In the room downstairs

He sat and stared

In the room downstairs

He sat and stared

I’ll never make that mistake again!"

Boy afraid

Prudence never pays

And everything she wants costs money

"But she doesn’t even LIKE me!

And I know because she said so

In the room downstairs

She sat and stared

In the room downstairs

She sat and stared

I’ll never make that mistake again!"

Back To The Old House ("Hatful", "Louder")

I would rather not go

Back to the old house

I would rather not go

Back to the old house

There’s too many

Bad memories there

When you cycled by

Here began all my dreams

The saddest thing I’ve ever seen

And you never knew

How much I really liked you

Because I never even told you

Oh, and I meant to

Are you still there?

Or have you moved away?

I would love to go

Back to the old house

But I never will

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want ("Hatful", "Louder")

Good times for a change

See, the luck I’ve had

Would make a good man

Turn bad

So please, please, please

Let me, let me, let me

Let me get what I want

This time

Haven’t had a dream in a long time

See, the life I’ve had

Would make a good man bad

So for once in my life

Let me get what I want

Lord knows it would be the first time

Lord knows it would be the first time.

The Headmaster Ritual ("Meat")

Belligerent ghouls

Run Manchester schools

Spineless swines

Cemented minds

Sir leads the troops

Jealous of youth

Same old suit since 1962

He does the military two-step

Down the nape of my neck

I wanna go home

I don’t want to stay

Give up education

As a bad mistake

Mid-week on the playing fields

Sir thwacks you on the knees

Knees you in the groin

Elbow in the face

Bruises bigger than dinner plates

I wanna go home

I don’t want to stay

Belligerent ghouls

Run Manchester schools

Spineless bastards all

Sir leads the troops

Jealous of youth

Same old joke since 1902

He does the military two-step

Down the nape of my neck

I wanna go home

I don’t want to stay

Give up life

As a bad mistake

Please excuse me from gym

I’ve got this terrible cold coming on

He grabs and devours

He kicks me in the showers

Kicks me in the showers

And he grabs and devours

I wanna go home

I don’t want to stay.

Rusholme Ruffians ("Meat", "Rank")

The last night of the fair

By the big wheel generator

A boy is stabbed

And his money is grabbed

And the air hangs heavy like a dulling wine

She is Famous

She is Funny

An engagement ring

Doesn’t mean a thing

To a mind consumed by brass (money)

And though I walk home alone

My faith in love is still devout

The last night of the fair

From a seat on a whriling waltzer

Her skirt ascends for a watching eye

It’s a hideous trait (on her mother’s side)

From a seat on a whriling waltzer

Her skirt ascends for a watching eye

It’s a hideous trait (on her mother’s side)

And though I walk home alone

My faith in love is still devout

Then someone falls in love

And someone’s beaten up

Someone’s beaten up

And the senses being dulled are mine

And someone falls in love

And someone’s beaten up

And the senses being dulled are mine

And though I walk home alone

My faith in love is still devout

This is the last night of the fair

And the grease in the hair

Of a speedway operator

Is all a tremulous heart requires

A schoolgirl is denied

She said: "How quickly would I die

If I jumped from the top of the parachutes?"

This is the last night of the fair

And the grease in the hair

Of a speedway operator

Is all a tremulous heart requires

A schoolgirl is denied

She said: "How quickly would I die

If I jumped from the top of the parachutes?"

Scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen

(This means you really love me)

Scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen

(This means you really love me)

And though I walk home alone

My faith in love is still devout.

I Want The One I Can’t Have ("Meat")

On the day that your mentality

Catches up with your biology

I want the one I can’t have

And it’s driving me mad

It is written all over my face

(repeat)

A double-bed

And a stalwart lover, for sure

These are the riches of the poor

A double-bed

And a stalwart lover, for sure

These are the riches of the poor

(refrain)

A tough kid who sometimes swallows nails raised on Prisoner’s Aid

He killed a policeman when he was thirteen

And somehow that really impressed me

It’s written all over my face

On the day that your mentality

Catches up with your biology

And if you ever need self-validation

Just meet me in the alley by the railway-station

It’s written all over my face.

What She Said ("Meat", "Rank")

What she said:

"How come someone hasn’t noticed that I’m dead

And decided to bury me

God knows, I’m ready"

What she sad was sad

But then, all the rejection she’s had

To pretend to be happy

Could only be idiocy

What she said was not for the job or

Lover that she never had

What she read

All heady books

She’d sit and prophesise

(It took a tattooed boy from Birkenhead

To really, really open her eyes)

What she read

All heady books

She’d sit and prophesise

(It took a tattooed boy from Birkenhead

To really, really open her eyes)

What she said:

"I smoke ‘cos I’m hoping for an early death

AND I NEED TO CLING TO SOMETHING!"

What she said:

"I smoke ‘cos I’m hoping for an early death

AND I NEED TO CLING TO SOMETHING!"

That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore ("Meat", "World")

Park the car at the side of the road

You should know

Time’s tide will smother you

And I will too

When you laugh about people who feel so

Very lonely

Their only desire is to die

Well I’m afraid

It doesn’t make me smile

I wish I could laugh

But that joke isn’t funny anymore

It’s too close to home

And it’s too near the bone

It’s too close to home

And it’s too near the bone

More than you’ll ever know

It was dark as I drove the point home

And on cold leather seats

Well, it suddenly struck me

I just might die with a smile on my

Face after all

I’ve seen this happen in other’s people lives

And now it’s happening in mine

Nowhere Fast ("Meat")

I’d like to drop my trousers to the world

I am a man of means (of slender means)

Each household appliance

Is like a new science in my town

And if the day came when I felt a natural emotion

I’d get such shock I’d probably jump in the ocean

And when a train goes by it’s such a sad sound

I’d like to drop my trousers to the Queen

Every sensible child will know what this means

The poor and the needy

Are selfish and greedy on her terms

And if the day came when I felt a natural emotion

I’d get such shock I’d probably jump in the ocean

And when a train goes by it’s such a sad sound

And when I’m lying in my bed

I think about life

And I think about death

And neither one particularly appeals to me

And if the day came when I felt a natural emotion

I’d get such shock I’d probably lie

In the middle of the street and die

I’d lie down and die

Well I Wonder ("Meat")

Well I wonder

Do you hear me when you sleep?

I hoarsely cry

Well I wonder

Do you see me when we pass?

I half-die

Please keep me in mind

Gasping - but somehow still alive

This is the fierce last stand of all I am

Gasping - dying - but somehow still alive

This is the final stand of all I am

Please keep me in mind

Barbarism Begins At Home ("Meat")

Unruly boys

Who will not grow up

Must be taken in hand

Unruly girls

Who will not settle down

They must be taken in hand

A crack on the head

Is what you get for not asking

And a crack on the head

Is what you get for asking

Meat Is Murder ("Meat")

Heifer whines could be human cries

Closer comes the screaming knife

This beautiful creature must die

A death for no reason

And death for no reason is MURDER

And the flesh you so fancifully fry

Is not succulent, tasty or nice

It’s death for no reason

And death for no reason is MURDER

And the calf that you carve with a smile

Is MURDER

And the turkey you festively slice

Is MURDER

Do you know how animals die?

Kitchen aromas aren’t very homely

It’s not "comforting", "cheery" or kind

It’s sizzling blood and the unholy stench

Of MURDER

It’s not "natural", "normal" or kind

The flesh you so fancifully fry

The meat in your mouth

As you savour the flavour

Of MURDER

NO, NO, NO, IT’S MURDER

Who hears when animals cry?

The Queen Is Dead ("Queen", "Rank")

Farewell to this lands cheerless marshes

Hemmed in like a boar between arches

Her very Lowness with her head in a sling

I’m truely sorry - but it sounds like a wonderful thing

Dear Charles, don’t you ever crave

To appear on the front of the Daily Mail

Dressed in your mother’s bridal veil?

So, I checked all the registered historical facts

And I was shocked into shame to discover

How I’m the 18th pale descendent

Of some old queen or other

Has the world changed, or have I changed?

As some 9-year old tough peddles drugs

(I never even knew what drugs were)

And so, I broke into the Palace

With a sponge and rusty spanner

She said: "Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing"

I said: "that’s nothing - you should hear me play piano"

We can go for a walk where it’s quiet and dry

And we can talk about precious things

But when you’re tied to your Mother’s apron

No one talks about castration

We can go for a walk where it’s quiet and dry

And we can talk about precious things

Like love and law and poverty

These are things that kill me

We can go for a walk where it’s quiet and dry

And we can talk about precious things

But the rain flattens my hair

These are the things that kill me

Passed the pub that saps your body

And the church who’ll snatch your money

The Queen is dead, boys

And it’s so lonely on a limb

Passed the pub that wrecks your body

And the church - all they want is your money

The Queen is dead, boys

You can trust me, boys

Life is very long, when you’re lonely

Frankly, Mr. Shankly ("Queen")

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I held

It pays my way, but it corrodes my soul

I want to leave, you will not miss me

I want to go down in musical history

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, I’m a sickening wreck

I’ve got the 21st Century breathing down my neck

I must move fast, you understand me

I want to go down in celluloid history

Fame, Fame, fatal Fame

It can play hideous tricks on the brain

But still I’d rather be famous

Than righteous or holy, any day

But sometimes I’d feel more fulfilled

Making Christmas cards with the mentally ill

I want to Live and I want to Love

I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I’ve held

It pays my way and it corrodes my soul

Oh, I didn’t realise that you wrote poetry

(I didn’t realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry)

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask

You are a flatulent pain in the arse

I do not mean to be so rude

But still, I must speak frankly, Mr. Shankly

I Know It’s Over ("Queen", "Rank")

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

And as I climb into an empty bed

Oh well, Enough said.

I know it’s over - still I cling

I don’t know where else I can go

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

See, the sea wants to take me

The knife wants to cut me

Do you think you can help me?

Sad veiled bride, please be happy

Handsome groom, give her room

Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly

(Although she needs you

More than she loves you)

And I know it’s over - still I cling

I don’t know where else I can go

I know it’s over

And it never really began

But in my heart it was so real

And you even spoke to me, and said:

"If you’re so funny

Then why are you on your own tonight?

And if you’re so clever

Why are you on your own tonight?

If you’re so very entertaining

Why are you on your own tonight?

If you’re so terribly good-looking

Then why do you sleep alone tonight?

Because tonight is just like any other night

That’s why you’re on your own tonight

With your triumphs and your charms

While they are in each other’s arms..."

It’s so easy to laugh

It’s so easy to hate

It takes strenght to be gentle and kind

It’s so easy to laugh

It’s so easy to hate

It takes guts to be gentle and kind

Love is Natural and Real

But not for you, my love

Not tonight, my love

Love is Natural and Real

But not for such as you and I, my love

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

Never Had No One Ever ("Queen")

When you walk without ease

On these

Streets where you were raised

I had a really bad dream

It lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days

I never, never had no one ever

Had no one ever

Now I’m outside your house

I’m alone

Now, I’m outside your house

I hate to intrude

I’m alone

And I never, never had no one ever

Had no one ever

I never had no one ever

I never had no one

No never

Had no one ever

Never

Cemetry Gates ("Queen", "Rank")

A dreaded sunny day

So I meet you at the cemetry gates

Keats and Yeats are on your side

A dreaded sunny day

So I meet you at the cemetry gates

Keats and Yeats are on your side

While Wilde is on mine

So we can go inside and we gravely read the stones

All those people all those lives

Where are they now?

With loves, and hates

And passions just like mine

They were born

And then they lived

And then they died

Which seems so unfair

And I want to cry

You say: "Ere thrice the sun hath done salutation to the dawn"

And you claim these words as your own

But I’m well-read, have heard them said

A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)

If you must write prose/poems

The words you use should be your own

Don’t plagiarise or take "on loan"

There’s always someone, somewhere

With a big nose, who knows

And who trips you up and laughs when you fall

Who’ll trip you up and laugh when you fall

You said: "Ere long done do does did"

Words which could only be your own

You then produce the text

From whence was ripped

(Some dizzy whore, 1804)

A dreaded sunny day

So let’s go where we’re happy

And I meet at the cemetry gates

Keats and Yeats are on your side

A dreaded sunny day

So let’s go where we’re wanted

And I meet you at the cemetry gates

Keats and Yeats are on your side

But you lose

Because Wilde is on mine

Bigmouth Strikes Again ("Queen", "World", "Rank")

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking

When I said I’d like to smash every tooth

In your head

Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking

When I said by rights you should be

Bludgeoned in your bed

And now I know how Joan of Arc felt

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt

As the flames rose to her roman nose

And her Walkman started to melt

Bigmouth, bigmouth

Bigmouth strikes again

And I’ve no right to take my place

With the Human race

Bigmouth, bigmouth

Bigmouth strikes again

And I’ve no right to take my place

With the Human race

And now I know how Joan of Arc felt

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt

As the flames rose to her roman nose

And her hearing aid started to melt

Bigmouth, bigmouth

Bigmouth strikes again

And I’ve no right to take my place

With the Human race

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side ("Queen", "World", "Rank")

The boy with the thorn in his side

Behind the hatred there lies

A murderous desire for love

How can they look into my eyes

And still they don’t believe me

How can they hear me say those words

And still they don’t believe me

And if they don’t believe me now

Will they ever believe me?

And if they don’t believe me now

Will they ever believe me?

The boy with the thorn in his side

Behind the hatred there lies

A plundering desire for love

How can they the Love in our eyes

And still they don’t believe us

And after all this time

They don’t want to believe us

And if they don’t believe us now

Will they ever believe us?

And when you want to Live

How do you start?

Where do you go?

Who do you need to know?

Vicar In A Tutu ("Queen", "Rank")

I was minding my business

Lifting some lead off

The roof of the Holy Name church

It was worthwhile living a laughable life

Just to set my eyes on the blistering sight

Of a vicar in a tu-tu

He’s not strange

He just wants to live his life this way

A scanty bit of a thing

With a decorative ring

That wouldn’t cover the head of a child

As Rose collects the money in a cannister

Who comes sliding down the bannister

The vicar in a tu-tu

He’s not strange

He just wants to live his life this way

The monkish monsignor

With a head full of plaster

said: "My man, get your vile soul dry-cleaned"

As Rose counts the money in the cannister

As natural as Rain

He dances again

Vicar in a tu-tu

The next day in the pulpit

With Freedom and Ease

Combatting ignorance, dust and disease

As Rose counts the money in the cannister

As natural as Rain

He dances again

The fabric of a tu-tu

Any man could get used to

And I am living sign

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out ("Queen", "World")

Take me out tonight

Where there’s music and there’s people

Who are young and alive

Driving in your car

I never, never want to go home

Because I haven’t got one

Anymore

Take me out tonight

Because I want to see people and I

Want to see lights

Driving in your car

Oh please don’t drop me home

Because it’s not my home, it’s their

Home, and I’m welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus

Crashes into us

To die by your side

Such a heavenly way to die

And if a ten ton truck

Kills the both of us

To die by your side

The pleasure and privilege is mine

Take me out tonight

Oh take anywhere, I don’t care

And in the darkened underpass

I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last

(But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn’t ask)

Take me out tonight

Take me anywhere, I don’t care

Just driving in your car

I never, never want to go home

Because I haven’t got one

I haven’t got one

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others ("Queen")

From the ice-age to the dole-age

There is but one concern

And I have just discovered:

Some girls are bigger than others

Some girls mothers are bigger than others girls mothers

As Anthony said to Cleopatra

As he opened a crate of ale:

Some girls are bigger than others

Some girls mothers are bigger than others girls mothers

Panic ("World", "Louder", "Rank")

Panic on the streets of London

Panic on the streets of Birmingham

I wonder to myself

Could life ever be sane again

On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down

I wonder to myself

Hopes may rise on the Grasmeres

But Honey Pie, you’re not safe here

So you run down

To the safety of the town

But there’s panic on the strees of Carlisle

Dublin, Dundee, Humbeside

I wonder to myself

Burn down the Disco

Hang the blessed D.J.

Because the music that they constantly play

IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE

Hang the blessed D.J.

Because the music that they constantly play

On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down

On the provincial towns that you jog ‘round

Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J.

HANG THE D.J, HANG THE D.J, HANG THE D.J,

Ask ("World", "Louder", "Rank")

Shyness is nice, but

Shyness can stop you

From doing all the things in life

That you’d like to

So, if there’s something that you’d

Like to try

If there’s something that you’d

Like to try

ASK ME - I WON’T SAY "NO" - HOW COULD I?

Coyness is nice, but

Coyness can stop you

From saying all the things in

Life you want to

So, if there’s something that you’d

Like to try

If there’s something that you’d

Like to try

ASK ME - I WON’T SAY "NO" - HOW COULD I?

Spending warm, Summer days indoors

Writing frightening verse

To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg

ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME

Because if it’s not Love

Then it’s the Bomb

That will bring us together

Nature is a language - can’t you read?

ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME

Because if it’s not Love

Then it’s the Bomb

That will bring us together

London ("World", "Louder", "Rank")

Smoke

Lingers ‘round your fingers

Train

Heave on - to Euston

Do you think you’ve made

The right decision this time?

You left

Your tired family greaving

And you think they’re sad because you’re leaving

But didn’t you see the Jealousy in the eyes

Of the ones who had to stay behind?

And do you think you’ve made

The right decision thies time?

You left

Your girlfriend on the platform

With this really ragged notion that you’ll return

But she knows

That when he goes

He really goes

So do you think you’ve

The right decision this time?

Shakespeare’s Sister ("World", "Louder")

Young bones groan

And the rocks below, say:

"Throw your skinny body down, son!"

But I am going to meet the one I love

So, please don’t stand in my way

Because I’m going to meet the one I love

No Mamma, let me go!

Young bones groan

And the rocks below, say:

"Throw your white body down!"

But I am going to meet the one I love

At last! At last! At last!

I am going to meet the one I love

La-de-la, la-de-la

No, Mamma, let me go!

I thought that if you had

An acoustic guitar

Then it meant that you were

A Protest Singer

Oh I can smile about it now

But at the time it was terrible

No, Mamma, let me go

Shoplifters Of The World Unite ("World", "Louder")

Learn to love me

Assemble the ways

Now, today, tomorrow and always

My only weakness is a list of crimes

My only weakness is ... well, nevermind

Shoplifters of the world

Unite and take over

Shoplifters of the world

Hand it over

Learn to love me

Assemble the ways

Now, today, tomorrow and always

My only weakness is a listed crime

But last night the plans for a future war

Was all I saw on Channel Four

Shoplifters of the world

Unite and take over

Shoplifters of the world

Hand it over

A heartless on my shoulder

A push - And it’s over

Alabaster crashes down

(Six months is a long time)

I tried living in the real world

Instead of a shell

But I was bored before I even began

I was bored before I even began

Shoplifters of the world

Unite and take over

Shoplifters of the world

Unite and take over

Shoplifters of the world

Take over

Asleep ("World", "Louder")

Sing me to sleep

I’m tired and I

I want to go to bed

Sing me to sleep

And then leave me alone

Don’t try to wake me in the morning

‘Cause I will be gone

Don’t feel bad for me

I want you to know

Deep in the cell of my heart

I will feel so glad to go

Sing me to sleep

I don’t want to wake up

On my own anymore

Sing to me

I don’t want to wake up

On my own anymore

Don’t feel bad for me

I want you to know

Deep in the cell of my heart

I really want to go

There is another world

There is a better world

Well, there must be

Bye bye

Unloveable ("World", "Louder")

I know I’m unloveable

You don’t have to tell me

I don’t have much in my life

But take it - it’s yours

I know I’m unloveable

You don’t have to tell me

Message recieved

Loud and clear

I don’t have much in my life

But take it - it’s yours

I know I’m unloveable

You don’t have to tell me

Message recieved

Loud and clear

I don’t have much in my life

But take it - it’s yours

I wear Black on the outside

Because Black is how I feel on the inside

I wear Black on the outside

Because Black is how I feel on the inside

And if I seem a little strange

Well, that’s because I am

If I seem a little strange

That’s because I am

But I know that you would like me

If only you could see me

If only you could meet me

Half A Person ("World", "Louder")

Call me morbid, call me pale

I’ve spent six years on your trail

Six long years

On your trail

Call me morbid, call me pale

I’ve spent six years on your trail

Six full years of my life on your trail

And if you had five seconds to spare

Then I’ll tell you the story of my life:

Sixteen, clumsy and shy

I went to London and I

I booked myself in at the Y....W.C.A.

I said: "I like it here - can I stay?

I like it here - can I stay

And, do you a vacancy

For a Back-scrubber?"

She was left behind, and sour

And she wrote to me on the hour

She said: "In the days when you were

Hopelessly poor

I just liked you more..."

So if you had five seconds to spare

Then I’ll tell you the story of my life:

Sixteen, clumsy and shy

I went to London and I

I booked myself in at the Y....W.C.A.

I said: "I like it here - can I stay?

I like it here - can I stay

And, do you a vacancy

For a Back-scrubber?"

Call me morbid, call me pale

I’ve too long on your trail

Far too long

Chasing your trail

And if you had five seconds to spare

Then I’ll tell you the story of my life:

Sixteen, clumsy and shy

That’s the story of my life

Sixteen, clumsy and shy

The story of my life

That’s the story of my life

Stretch Out And Wait ("World", "Louder")

Off the high-rise estates

What’s at the back of your mind

Your face I can see

And it’s desperately kind

But what’s at the back of your mind?

Two icy-cold hands conducting the way

It’s the Eskimo blood in my veins

Amid concrete and clay

And general decay

Nature must still find a way

So ignore all the codes of the day

Let your juvenile impulses sway

This way and that way

God, how sex implores you

To let yourself lose yourself

Stretch out and wait

Let your punny body lie down, lie down

As we lie, you say

Stretch out and wait

Let your punny body lie down, lie down

As we lie, you say:

Will the world end in the day time?

(I really don’t know)

Or will the world end in the night time?

(I really don’t know)

And is there any point ever having children?

I really don’t know

All I do know is that we’re Here and it’s Now

So stretch out and wait

Stretch out and wait

There is no debate, no debate, no debate

How can you consciously contemplate

When there’s no debate, no debate

Stretch out and wait

You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby ("World", "Louder")

If you’re wondering why

All the love that you long for eludes you

And people are rude and cruel to you

I’ll tell you why

You just haven’t earned it yet, baby

You just haven’t earned it yet, son

You just haven’t earned it yet, baby

You must suffer and cry for a longer time

You just haven’t earned it yet, baby

And I’m telling you now

If you’re wondering why

When all I wanted from life was to be Famous

I have tried for so long, it’s all gone wrong

I’ll tell you why

But you wouldn’t believe me

You just haven’t earned it yet, baby

You just haven’t earned it yet, son

You just haven’t earned it yet, baby

You must suffer and cry for a longer time

You just haven’t earned it yet, Baby

And I’m telling you now

Today I’m remembering the time

When they pulled me back

And held me down

And looked me in the eyes

You just haven’t earned it yet, baby

You just haven’t earned it yet, son

You just haven’t earned it yet, baby

You must stay on your own for a slightly longer

You just haven’t earned it yet, baby

And I’m telling you now

Rubber Ring ("World", "Louder")

A sad factor widely known

How a most impassionate song

To a lonely soul

Is so easily outgrown

But don’t forget the songs

That made you smile

And the songs that made you cry

When you lay in awe

On the bedroom floor

And said: "Oh, smother me, Mother..."

The passing of time

And of all its crimes

Is making me sad again

The passing of time

And of all its sickening crimes

Is making me sad again

but don’t forget the songs

That made you cry

And the songs that saved your life

Yes, you’re older now

And you’re a clever swine

But they were the only ones who ever stood by you

The passing of time leaves empty lives

Waiting to be filled

The passing of time

Leaves empty lives

Waiting to be filled

I’m here with the cause

I’m holding the torch

In the corner of your room

Can you hear me?

And when you’re dancing and laughing

And finally living

Hear my voice in your head

And think of me kindly

Do you

Love me like you used to?

Golden Lights ("World", "Louder")

Golden lights displaying your name

Golden lights it’s a terrible shame

But oh my darling

WHY DID YOU CHANGE?

Boy in a million, idol, a big star

I didn’t tell you how great you were

I didn’t grovel or scream

Or rip your brand new jacket at the seams

You made a record, they liked your singing

All of a sudden my phone stopped ringing

I never thought you would let

The glory make you forget

Golden lights displaying your name

Golden lights it’s a terrible shame

But oh my darling

WHY DID YOU CHANGE?

Top ten idol, king of your age

But who do you turn to when you’re backstage?

Don’t you remember you once knew a girl

Who loved you more than the world

Is life always like this, brother

Good for some but bad for the other

I must pay you behind me tonight

‘Cause you belong to the lights

Golden lights displaying your name

Golden lights it’s a terrible shame

But oh my darling

WHY DID YOU CHANGE?

Is It Really So Strange? ("Louder", "Rank")

I left the North

I travelled South

I found a tiny house

I can’t help the way I feel

Oh yes you can kick me

And you can punch me

And you can break my face

But you won’t change the way I feel

‘Cause I love you

And is it really so strange?

Is it really so strange?

Is it really so, really so strange?

I say NO, you say YES

(But you will change your mind)

I left South

I travelled North

I got confused - I killed a horse

I can’t help the way I feel

Oh yes you can kick me

And you can butt me

And you can break my spine

But you won’t change the way I feel

‘Cause I love you

And is it really so strange?

Is it really so strange?

Is it really so, really so strange?

I say NO, you say YES

(But you will change your mind)

I left the North again

I travelled South again

I got confused - I killed a nun

I CAN’T HELP THE WAY I FEEL

(I lost my bag in Newport Pagnell)

Why is the last mile the hardest mile

My throat was dry, with the sun in my eyes

And I realised, I realised

That I could never

I could never, never go back home again

Sheila Take A Bow ("Louder")

Is it wrong to want to live in your own?

No, it’s not wrong - but I must know

How can someone so young

Sing words so sad?

Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow

Boot the grime of this word in the crotch dear

And don’t go home tonight

Come out and find the one that you love and who loves you

Is it wrong not to always be glad

No, it’s not wrong - but I must add

How can someone so young

Sing words so sad?

Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow

Boot the grime of this word in the crotch dear

And don’t go home tonight

Come out and find the one that you love and who loves you

Take my hand and off we stride

You’re a girl and I’m a boy

Take my hand and off we stride

I’m a girl and you’re a boy

Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow

Throw you homework into the fire

Come out and find the one you love

Come out and find the one that you love

Sweet And Tender Hooligan ("Louder")

He was a sweet and tender hooligan

And he swore that he’d never, never do it again

And of course he won’t (not until the next time)

Poor old man

He had an "accident" with a three bar fire

But that’s OK

Because he wasn’t very happy anyway

Poor woman

Strangled in her very own bed as she read

But that’s OK

Because she was old and she would have died anyway

DON’T BLAME

This sweet and tender hooligan

Because he’ll never, never do it again

(At least not until the next time)

So jury you’ve heard every word

But before you decide

Would you look into those "Mother-me" eyes

I love life for you, my, you my love

So jury you’ve heard every word

But before you decide

Would you look into those "Mother-me" eyes

I love life for you, my, you my love

I love you just for you, my love

Don’t blame

The sweet and tender hooligan

Who claims that

"In the midst of life we are in debt ETC"

ETC! ETC! ETC! ETC!

IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEBT ETC!

A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours ("Strangeways")

HELLO

I am the ghost of Troubled Joe

Hung by his pretty white neck

Some eighteen month ago

I travelled to a mystical time zone

And I missed my bed

And I soon came home

They said:

"There’s too much caffeine

In your blood stream

And a lack of real spice

In your life"

I said:

"Leave me alone

Because I’m alright, dad

Just surprised to still

Be on my own..."

Ooh, but don’t mention love

I’d hate the strain of the pain again

A rush and a push and the land that

We stand on is ours

It has been before

Si it shall be again

And people who are uglier than you and I

They take what they need, and leave

Ooh, but don’t mention love

I’d hate the pain of the strain all over again

A rush and a push and the land that

We stand on is ours

It has been before

So why can’t it be now?

And people who are weaker than you and I

They take what they want from life

Ooh, but don’t mention love

No - just don’t mention love!

A rush and a push and the land that

We stand on is ours

Your youth may be gone

But you’re still a young man

So phone me, phone me

So phone me, phone me, phone me

Ooh, I think I’m love

Urrgh, I think I’m in lerve

I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish ("Strangeways")

The lanes were silent

With nothing, no nothing around for miles

I doused our friendly venture

With a hard-faced

Three-words gesture

I started something

And forced you into a zone

And you were clearly

Never meant to go

Hair brushed and parted

Typical me, typical me

Typical me

I started something

...and now I’m not too sure

I grabbed you by the guilded beams

That’s what Tradition means

And I doused another venture

With a gesture

That was ... absolutely live

I started something

And forced you to a zone

And you were clearly

Never meant to go

Hair brushed and parted

Typical me, typical me

Typical me

I started something

...and now I’m not too sure

I grabbed you by the guilded beams

That’s what Tradition means

And now eighteen months’ hard-labour

Seems ... fair enough

I started something

Forced you to a zone

And you were clearly

Never meant to go

Hair brushed and parted

Typical me, typical me

Typical me

I started something

And now I’m not too sure

Death Of A Disco Dancer ("Strangeways")

The death of a disco dancer

Well, it happens a lot ‘round here

And if you think Peace

Is a common goal

Well, that goes to show

Just how little you now

The death of a disco dancer

Well, I’d rather not get involved

I never talk to my neighbour

I’d just rather not get involved

Love, peace and harmony?

Oh, very nice

Very nice

...but maybe in the next world

Girlfriend In A Coma ("Strangeways")

Girlfriend in a coma, I know

I know - it’s serious

Girlfriend in a coma, I know

I know - it’s really serious

There were times when I could

Have ‘murdered’ her

(But, you know, I would hate

Anything to happen to her)

NO, I DON’T WANT TO SEE HER

Do you really think

She’ll pull through?

Do you really think

She’ll pull through?

Girlfriend in a coma, I know

I know - it’s serious

There were times when I could

Have ‘strangled’ her

(But, you know, I would hate

Anything to happen to her)

WOULD YOU PLEASE

LET ME SEE HER!

Do you really think

She’ll pull through?

Do you really think

She’ll pull through?

Let me whisper my last goodbyes

I know - IT’S SERIOUS

Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before ("Strangeways")

Stop me, stop me

Stop me if you think that you’ve

Heard this one before

Stop me, stop me

Stop me if you think that you’ve

Heard this one before

Nothing’s changed

I still love you, oh I still love

...only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love

I was delayed, I was way-laid

An emergency stop

I smelt the last ten seconds of life

I crashed down on the crossbar

And the pain was enough to make

A shy, bald buddhist reflect

And a plan a mass-murder

Who said I’d lied to her?

Who said I’d lied because I never, I never

Who said I’d lied because I never

I was detained, I was restrained

He broke my spleen

He broke my knees

(And then he really laid into me)

Friday night in Out-patients

Who said I’d lied to her?

Who said I’d lied - because I never, I never

Who said I’d lied - because I never

Oh, so I drank one

And it became four

And when felt on the floor...

...I drank more

Stop me, stop me

Stop me if you think that you’ve

Heard this one before

Stop me, stop me

Stop me if you think that you’ve

Heard this one before

Nothing’s changed

I still love you, oh I still love

...only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me ("Strangeways")

Last night I dreamt

That somebody loved me

No hope - but no harm

Just another false alarm

Last night I felt

Real arms around me

No hope - no harm

Just another false alarm

So, tell me how long

Before the last one?

And tell me how long

Before the right one?

This story is old - I KNOW

But it goes on

This story is old - I KNOW

But it goes on

Unhappy Birthday ("Strangeways")

I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday

Because you’re evil

And you lie

And if you should die

I may feel slightly sad

(But I won’t cry)

Loved and lost

And some may say

When ususally its Nothing

Surely you’re happy

It should be this way?

I say "No, I’m gonna kill my dog, may the lines sag

The lines sag heavy and deep tonight"

I’ve come to wish you an unhappy birthday

Because you’re evil

And you lie

And if you should die

I may feel slightly sad

(But I won’t cry)

Loved and lost

And some may say

When ususally its Nothing

Surely you’re happy

It should be this way?

I said "No"

And then I shot myself

So, drink, drink, drink

And be ill tonight

From the one you left behind

Paint A Vulgar Picture ("Strangeways")

At the record company meeting

On their hands - a dead star

And ooh, the plans that they weave

And ooh, the sickening greed

At the record company party

On their hands - a dead star

The sycophantic slags all say:

"I knew him first, and I knew him well"

Re-issue! Re-package! Re-package!

Re-evaluate the songs

Double-pack with a photograph

Extra Track (and a tacky badge)

A-list, playlist

"Please them, please them!"

"Please them!"

(Sadly, THIS was your life)

But you could have said no

If you’d wanted to

You could have said no

If you’d wanted to

BPI, MTV, BBC

"Please them, please them!"

(Sadly, this was your life)

But you could have said no

If you’d wanted to

You could have walked away

...couldn’t you?

I touched you at the soundcheck

You had no real way of knowing

In my heart I begged "please, take

Me with you...

I don’t care where you’re going..."

But to you I was faceless

I was fawning, I was boring

Just a child from those ugly new houses

Who could never begin to know

Who could never really know

Best of! Most of!

Satiate the need

Slip them into different sleeves!

Buy both, and be deceived

Climber - new entry, re-entry

World tour! ("media whore")

"Please the Press in Belgium!"

(THIS was your life...)

And when it fails to recoup?

Well, maybe:

You just haven’t earned it yet, baby

I walked a pace behind you at the soundcheck

You’re just the same as I am

What makes most people feel happy

Lead us headlong into harm

So, in my bedroom in those ‘ugly new houses’

I dance my legs down to the knees

But me and my ‘true love’

We will never meet again...

At the record company meeting

On their hands - at last! - a dead star!

But they can never taint you in my eyes

No, they can never touch you now

No, they cannot hurt you my darling

They cannot touch you now

But me and my ‘true love’

Will never meet again

Death At One’s Elbow ("Strangeways")

Ooh Glenn

Don’t come to the house tonight

Ooh, Glenn

Don’t come to the house tonight

Ooh Glenn

Because there’s somebody here

Who really, really loves you

Ooh Glenn

Stay home

Be bored

(It’s crap, I KNOW) - tonight

Ooh, Glenn

Ooh Glenn

Don’t come to the house tonight

Ooh Glenn

Don’t come to the house tonight

Because there’s somebody here

Who’ll take a hatchet to your ear

How the frustation renders me

Hateful, Glenn!

Don’t come to the house tonight

Because you’ll slip on the

Trail of my bespattered remains

And so, that’s why

GOODBYE MY LOVE, GOODBYE MY LOVE

I Won’t Share You ("Strangeways")

I won’t share you

With the drive

The ambition

And the zeal I feel

This is my time

As the note I wrote

Was read, she said

Has the Perrier gone

Straight to my head

Or is life plainly sick and cruel, instead?

"YES!"

No, no, no, no, no, no

I won’t share you

With the drive

And the dreams inside

This is my time

Life tends to come and go

Well, that’s OK

Just as long as you know

Life tends to come and go

Well, that’s OK

Just as long as you know

I won’t share you

With the drive

And the dreams inside

This is my time

All lyrics by Morrissey, except "Golden Lights", by Twinkle.

Albuns:

The Smiths (Smiths)

Hatful of Hollow (Hatful)

Meat is Murder (Meat)

The Queen is Dead (Queen)

The World won’t Listen (World)

Louder than Bombs (Louder)

Strangeways, here we come (Strangeways)

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