 Genius Meanings
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The Smiths – Cemetry Gates
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Right after one of the bleakest songs in Smiths' history, we get this jangly, up-beat contradiction of a song that takes a frolicing tone through the cemetery.
This song recounts
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The Smiths – Cemetry Gates (Demo)
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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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Pantera – Cemetery Gates
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“Cemetery Gates” is one of Pantera’s most well-known songs. Musically, it is a melodic metal track that blends both acoustic and electric guitar, while its lyrics contain themes of
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The Frank and Walters – Cemetry Gates
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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 – 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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Los Campesinos! – Cemetery Gaits
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From the Heat Rash zine that came with the album pre-order:
Set entirely in Bethesda. A tryst between two lovers who spend the night drunk and detached from reality, under the
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Morrissey – Rebels Without Applause
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[Verse 1] / The gang's all gone / And I smolder on / I, who saw them leave / I cry bereaved / One by one / I saw them stall / Rebels without applause / [Verse 2] / The gang's all
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 – 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 – I Know It's Over
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“I Know It’s Over” is a ballad for the desperate and lonely. It uses basic allusions to the idea of loneliness producing despair, but the attention to the speaker’s ego, and how it
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The Smiths – The Draize Train
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[Instrumental]
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The Smiths – Never Had No One Ever
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“Never Had No One Ever” is the Smiths at their bleakest – like listening to the birth of a depression. Morrissey writes about having the nagging feeling of being an outsider his
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The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
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The lead single from The Queen Is Dead, “Bigmouth Strikes Again” reached 26 in the UK singles chart.
One of Moz’s most distinguishable features is his “Bigmouth” blabbering in the
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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 – 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 – 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 – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
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For those unwilling to accept this is about breasts – or at least sexual shapes, at the 1986 Queen Is Dead tour Artists Against Apartheid concert, the only time The Smiths
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The Smiths – Still Ill (Live in London, 1986)
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[Intro] / (Oh) / [Verse 1] / I decree today that life / Is simply taking and not giving / England is mine and it owes me a living / But ask me why and I'll spit in your eye, oh
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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 – 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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The Smiths – The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
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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 – Vicar in a Tutu
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[Verse 1] / I was minding my business / Lifting some lead off / The roof of the Holy Name church / It was worthwhile living a laughable life / To set my eyes on the blistering
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The Smiths – Rubber Ring / What She Said (Live in London, 1986) [Medley]
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[Part I: Rubber ring] / Yeah! / [Part II: What She Said] / [Verse 1] / What she says / "How come someone hasn't noticed that I'm dead / And decided to bury me? God knows, I'm ready
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The Smiths – His Latest Flame / Rusholme Ruffians (Live in London, 1986) [Medley]
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[Part I: His Latest Flame] / [Verse 1] / Very old friend / Came by today / As he was telling everyone in town / Of all the love that he'd just found / [Chorus] / And Marie's the
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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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