 Genius Lyrics
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Morrissey – Sing Your Life
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“Sing Your Life” was released as a single in April 1991. It was the second single taken from the Kill Uncle album. On release this was Morrissey’s lowest charting single in the UK
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Morrissey – The Loop
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I just wanna say / I haven't been away / I'm still right here / Where I always was / So one day, if you're bored / By all means call / Because you can do / (But only if you want to
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Morrissey – East West
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“East West” was a released as a new track on the 2013 re-issue of Kill Uncle. It substituted “Found Found Found” as track 6 on the revised tracklist.
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The Smiths – This Night Has Opened My Eyes
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“This Night Has Opened My Eyes” is inspired by and retells the events of the play A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, as Morrissey told interviewers at NME in the 7 June 1986
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The Smiths – Half a Person
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This song is about adolescence and a crush that Morrissey used to have during his teen years but never said anything to, which he is addressing here.
This song shows everything
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The Smiths – Rubber Ring
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Well respected by Smiths fans and critics alike, “Rubber Ring” is a song about coming of age, and leaving the awkward, difficult period in life that is being a teenager.
Morrissey
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The Smiths – You've Got Everything Now
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Morrissey expresses his bitterness towards a person whom he implies is only faking his happiness, because Morrissey believes that having a casual life isn’t enough.
Morrissey
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The Smiths – Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
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This is a typical Morrissey song about a person who is upset or depressed, and doesn’t want to waste any more time on thoughtless people. It was released as a single backed with “
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Morrissey – Disappointed
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[Verse 1] / Our unsleepable friend / Gets the message on an ill-wind / All your friends and your foes / Would rather die than have to touch you / To say the least, truly
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The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
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“The Queen is Dead” parodies media fascination with the royal family over bombastic guitar bursts and an aggressive bass line. Officially listed on physical tracklist as “The Queen
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Morrissey – Jack the Ripper
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[Verse 1] / Oh, you look so tired / Mouth slack and wide / Ill-housed and ill-advised / Your face is as mean / As your life has been / [Chorus] / Crash into my arms / I want you
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Motionless in White – Puppets (The First Snow)
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The song is about someone having regret over a relationship where he let the girl walk all over him
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The Smiths – Panic
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This song was written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr and is the first song to be recorded with the new member at the time, Craig Gannon. The song is influenced by the T.Rex song “
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Morrissey – (I'm) The End of the Family Line
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With no complications / Fifteen generations / (of mine) / All honouring nature / Until I arrive / (with incredible style) / I'm the end of the line / The end of the family line
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Morrissey – Disappointed (Live)
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“Disappointed (Live)” was released as a bonus track on the re-issue 1997 edition of Viva Hate.
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Morrissey – Tony the Pony
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“Tony the Pony” was included as a bonus track on the US version of Kill Uncle. It was omitted for the 2013 re-issue that saw other songs added in its place.
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Morrissey – King Leer
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Riddled with puns, “King Leer” by Morrissey has been noted as being a rockabilly tune, one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music.
Morrissey, being the bookish man he is
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Morrissey – The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye
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Churchillian legs / Hair barely there / The harsh truth of the camera eye / Your eyes signal pain / Because of the strain / Of smiling / The harsh truth of the camera eye / Telling
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Morrissey – There’s a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends
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The original recording is subdued and solemn, with the vocal backed only by a piano and bowed bass, plus a short coda of funeral-march drums.
For the Kill Uncle tour, Morrissey
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The Key of Awesome (Ft. Anastasia Douglas, CDZA, Franchesca Ramsey, Mark Douglas & Todd Womack) – Tribute to Ridiculous Voices
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[Verse 1: Mark Douglas as Louis Armstrong] / I've been gargling with broken glass / It helps my voice when I'm singing jazz / [Verse 2: Franchesca Ramsey as Billie Holiday
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The Smiths – The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
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Please don't cry / For the ghost and the storm outside / Will not invade this sacred shrine / Nor infiltrate your mind / My life down I shall lie / If the bogey-man should try / To
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Morrissey – Found Found Found
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[Verse 1] / Found found found / Found found found / Someone who's worth it / In this murkiness / Someone who's never / Seeming scheming / I found found found / Found found found
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Morrissey – Spent the Day in Bed
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A day after Morrissey tweeted “Spent the Day in Bed” as his first tweet from his newly opened Twitter account, the first single from his upcoming album Low In High School, “Spent
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Morrissey – Mute Witness
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Your poor witness / Crying so loudly on the floor / Oh, well, she's only trying to tell you / What it was that she saw / She is only trying to tell you / What it was that she saw
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The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
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“There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” is a sacred Smiths classic by now, one that makes fans across the globe join hands and mope together. To some it is a depressive anthem, to
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Morrissey – Pashernate Love
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“Pashernate Love” was released as a bonus track on the re-issue 1997 edition of Viva Hate. Later, it was added to the tracklist for the 2013 re-issue of Kill Uncle.
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The Smiths – This Charming Man
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“This Charming Man” is The Smiths' second single of 1983, depicting the story of a poor boy coming in contact with an upper class man and feeling unwelcome due to his lack of
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R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
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“Losing My Religion” was released as a single in February 1991, in advance of R.E.M.’s album, Out of Time, where it appeared as the second track.
It became R.E.M’s biggest hit
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The Smiths – I Won’t Share You
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On “I Won’t Share You” Morrissey let’s his inner egoist show, shamelessly breaking up with his lover whom he sees as burden. The “lover” can be interpreted as Smiths' guitarist
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Morrissey – Now My Heart Is Full
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“Now My Heart Is Full” was released as the third and last single off of Vauxhall and I.
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The Smiths – Ask
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“Ask” is a singalong about how you should seize your opportunities in life – especially relating to your love life, before humanity destroys the world.
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Morrissey – Mama Lay Softly On the Riverbed
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“Mama Lay Softly On the Riverbed” is a song about the titular mother having committed suicide. There’s a direct line back to a lyric from The Smiths a quarter of a century before
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Morrissey – Asian Rut
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Day oh so late / Strangely the sun still shone / Ooh Asian boy / What are you on? / Day oh so late / Strangely the sun still shone / Oh Asian boy / What are drugs are you on? / Oh
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Morrissey – Nobody Loves Us
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“Nobody Loves Us” was not on the original release of Southpaw Grammar, but included in the 2009 re-issue.
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Morrissey – Our Frank
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“Our Frank” was released as the lead single off of Kill Uncle in February of 1991.
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