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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 Welcome Wagon – Half A Person
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This is The Welcome Wagon’s version of “Half a Person” by The Smiths.
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Greg Laswell – Half A Person
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Lauren Spencer Smith – Bigger Person
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[Intro] / (Ooh-ooh-ooh) / (Ooh-ooh-ooh) / [Verse 1] / When you'd yell I would stay silent / You never noticed I was quiet / I was taught that speaking up was talking back / Always
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The Smiths – Nowhere Fast
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“Nowhere Fast” shows Meat Is Murder from its funny side as Morrissey croons:
I’d like to drop my trousers to the Queen
It’s hard to hear the song without wondering if Morrissey
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The Smiths – Sheila Take a Bow
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[Verse 1] / Is it wrong to want to live on your own? / No, it's not wrong, but I must know / How can someone so young sing words so sad? / [Chorus] / Sheila take a, Sheila take a
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The Smiths – Reel Around the Fountain
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From The Smiths' eponymous first album. “Reel Around the Fountain” met with controversy, with some tabloid newspapers alleging the songs were suggestive of paedophilia, a claim
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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 – Meat Is Murder (Live in Oxford)
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[Intro] / *Cow groans and industrial noises* / [Verse 1] / Heifer whines could be human cries / Closer comes the screaming knife / This beautiful creature must die / This beautiful
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The Smiths – Shoplifters Of The World Unite
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The title alludes to the communist slogan “workers of the world, unite!”
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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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The Beatles – Yesterday
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“Yesterday” is the most covered song in history, with over 2,000 versions having been recorded. A spare, haunting song of lost love from the early Beatles catalog, it was sung
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The Smiths – Barbarism Begins at Home - 7" Version
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[Verse] / 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 / [Chorus] / A crack on the head is what you
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Relauncing one of the greats in rock: The Smiths
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Over the last few days I have gone through the whole discography of The Smiths here on Genius. Going through each studio and compilation album, adding metadata, correcting album art, rewriting old SLA’s, answering questions, accepting/archiving comments, suggestions and annotations, upvoting, upvoting, upvoting all the good work already present, deleting pressburgs.. ahem.. contributions? Anyway – everything is in a pretty good shape, so NOW is a better time than ever (on Genius) to dive into the amazing band that was the Smiths – whether your Smiths virginity is still intact or if you’re looking to revisit an old love.
Need further incentive? How about the fact that knowledge of and love for the Smiths might get you a data with Zooey!
P.s. there’s still a lot of potential work to do on annotations etc. I’ll keep a keen eye, as I have all their songs #followed, so your work won’t go unnoticed.
P.p.s. To encourage comments in this thread I ask thee: What are your favourite three the Smiths'
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The Smiths – Sweet and Tender Hooligan
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Morrissey uses sarcasm and satire to ridicule the justice system in the way of how it forgives the young “sweet and tender hooligans.” In the song he’s playing a role of a
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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 – Asleep
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“Asleep” tells of the narrator’s desire to die. In his pain and sorrow, he wishes to be comforted as he drifts peacefully into death.
The song was originally released as the b-
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The Smiths – Stretch out and Wait
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“Stretch Out And Wait” is about how everyone in the world nowadays (1987) only thinks about getting laid, and how far people will go to find someone to achieve this with. It seems
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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 – London
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In this song Morrissey speaks out directly to a man who decided to catch a train to London to pursue a better life, continuously speaking to his own feelings and asking him if he
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The Smiths – Golden Lights
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Widely accepted as one of the Smiths' worst songs, “Golden Lights” is a cover of English singer-songwriter Twinkle’s 1965 single about an ordinary lad who loses all sight of his
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Phoebe Bridgers – Smoke Signals
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Smoke signals are a form of communication in which a person would use fire and smoke to transmit or communicate a message to another person across a long distance.
In the song
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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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William Fitzsimmons – Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
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Good times for a change / See the luck I've had / Could 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
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Lauren Spencer Smith – 28
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[Verse 1] / When you first told me about her, you said she was thirty / And I just can't help but think you knew it was dirty / And maybe you were just a little sad / But there's
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The Smiths – You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby
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[Verse 1] / 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 / I'll tell you why / I'll tell you why
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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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The Smiths – Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
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“Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me” is a slowpaced stringdriven ballad about loneliness that drips emotion.
The crux of the song comes with the end of a relationship, how
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Katy Goodman – What She Said
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[Verse 1] / What she said / "How come someone hasn't noticed that I'm dead / And decided to bury me? God knows, I'm ready!" / [Verse 2] / What she said was sad / But then, all the
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