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The Smiths – I Want the One I Can't Have
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This is a record full of yearning, the humiliating obviousness of when you want something, low expectations, the melodrama of youth and romance.
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The Smiths – I Want the One I Can't Have (Live in Boston)
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[Intro] / On the day that your mentality / Decides to try to catch up with your biology / Come round / [Chorus] / Cause I want the one I can't have / And it's driving me mad / It's
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The Smiths – Never Had No One Ever (Live in Boston)
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[Verse 1] / 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, I'm alone / [
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The Smiths – Frankly, Mr Shankly (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held / It pays my way, and it corrodes my soul / I want to leave, you will not miss me / I want to go down in musical history
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The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? (Live in Boston)
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse] / I am the son and the heir / Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar / I am the son and heir / Of nothing in particular / [Chorus] / You shut your
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The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Live in Boston)
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[Verse 1] / Take me out tonight / Where there's music and there's people / And they're young and alive / Driving in your car / I never, never want to go home / Because I haven't
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The Smiths – Never Had No One Ever (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / 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 / And I doh-doh-don't / [
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The Smiths – The Boy with the Thorn In His Side (Live in Boston)
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[Chorus] / The boy with the thorn in his side / Behind the hatred there lies / A murderous desire / For love / [Verse 1] / How can they look into my eyes / And still they don't
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The Smiths – The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (Demo Mix)
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[Chorus] / The boy with the thorn in his side / Behind the hatred there lies / A murderous desire / For love / [Verse 1] / How can they look into my eyes / And still they don't
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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 – The Queen Is Dead (Live in Boston)
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[Verse 1] / (Farewell) To this land's cheerless marshes / Hemmed in like a boar between archers / Her very Lowness with her head in a sling / But it sounds like a wonderful thing
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The Smiths – Is It Really so Strange? (Live in Boston)
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[Intro] / Is it really so strange? / I left the North, I travelled South / I found a tiny house and I can't help the way I feel / Oh yes, you can kick me, and you can punch me
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The Smiths – Cemetry Gates (Live in Boston)
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[Chorus] / 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
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The Smiths – That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (Live in Boston)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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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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Song Directory
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The Smiths – Hand in Glove (Live in Boston)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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The Smiths – Stretch out and Wait (Live in Boston)
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[Verse 1] / All the lies that you make up / What's at the back of your mind? / Oh, your face I can see and it's desperately kind / But what's at the back of your mind? / Two icy-
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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 – Rubber Ring / What She Said / Rubber Ring (Live in Boston)
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[Intro - Rubber Ring] / [Instrumental] / [Part 2: What She Said] / [Verse 1] / What she said / "How come someone hasn't noticed that I'm dead / And decided to bury me? God knows, I
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The Smiths – I Know It's Over (Live in Boston)
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[Verse 1] / I can feel the soil falling over my head / And as I climb into an empty bed / Oh well, enough said / [Chorus] / I know it's over, still I cling / I don't know where
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The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again (Demo)
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[Verse] / Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head / Oh-oh, sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said / By rights
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The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Other (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / From the ice age to the dole age / There is but one concern / I have just discovered: / [Chorus] / Some girls' are bigger than others / Some girls' are bigger than
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The Smiths – The Headmaster Ritual
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It’s safe to say that nobody else, before or since, has opened a significant rock album by hammering the bejesus out of the capoed, open-tuned chord that begins “The Headmaster
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The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (Take 1)
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[Verse 1] / Take me out tonight / Where there's music and there's people / And they're young and alive / Driving in your car / I never, never want to go home / Because I haven't
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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 – 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 – 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 – Frankly, Mr. Shankly
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“Frankly, Mr. Shankly” is a lark, an ambitious gofer’s resignation set to a light melody reminiscent of the Kinks. While referencing a real-life disagreement, this also calls back
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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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