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The Smiths – Back to the Old House
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[Verse 1] / 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 / Too many memories there / [Refrain] / Oh
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The Smiths – Back to the Old House (John Peel Session 9/14/83)
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[Verse 1] / 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 / Too many memories there / There / [Verse
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Billy Bragg – Back to the Old House
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I would rather not go back to the old house / I would rather not go back to the old house / Too many memories, bad memories / Too many memories there / When you cycled by, here
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Everything But The Girl – Back to the Old House
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[Verse 1] / 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 / Too many memories there (Oh there) / [
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What Difference Does It Make? - Single by The Smiths
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Get all the lyrics to songs on What Difference Does It Make? - Single and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics.
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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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The Smiths – What Difference Does it Make? - Single Edit
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[Verse 1] / All men have secrets and here is mine / So let it be known / For we have been through hell and high tide / I can think I can rely on you / And yet you start to recoil
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The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians (Peel session, August 1984)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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15kpaperdragons
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love me some slightly electronic-y atmospheric pop punk tunes !
mostly i make annotations when i’m procrastinating my english homework because i feel like i’m basically getting my textual analysis in either way
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Jesu and Sun Kil Moon (Ft. Jesu & Sun Kil Moon) – Hello Chicago
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Hello Chicago, Illinois / John Hughes was a fan of mine / One time we got on the phone / We talked for six hours / Then at the end he said "Mark, why are you callin'?" / I said "
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The Smiths – Reel Around The Fountain (Troy Tate Version)
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[Verse 1] / It's time the tale were told / Of how you took a child / And you made him old / It's time the tale were told / Of how you took a child / And you made him old / You made
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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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The Smiths – William, It Was Really Nothing
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This song is about a love triangle between 2 men and a woman. Many believe it’s addressed to William Mackenzie, lead singer of the Associates. In 1993 Mackenzie wrote the song “
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The Smiths – The Draize Train
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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 – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
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Perhaps the Smiths at their most delicate, “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” is a minimal, yet lush two minutes of almost otherworldly beauty.
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The Smiths – How Soon Is Now?
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Sire Records chief Seymour Stein called it “the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ of the Eighties”, while co-writer Johnny Marr described it as “possibly our most enduring record. It’s most
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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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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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The Smiths – Is It Really So Strange?
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“Is It Really So Strange?” describes Morrissey’s friend Linda and her movements in living in both Manchester and London after her art exhibition was moved to the capital. She
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The Smiths – You’ve Got Everything Now (David Jensen Session 26/06/83)
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[Verse 1] / As merry as the days were long / I am right and you were wrong / Back at the old grey school / I would win and you would lose / [Pre-Chorus] / But you've got everything
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