 Genius Meanings
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The Smiths – Hand in Glove
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“Hand in Glove” was released in May 1983 as The Smiths' first single.
The song was later featured on the band’s first album, The Smiths, and also on their two compilation albums
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The Smiths – Hand in Glove (Single A-side Mix)
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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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Sandie Shaw & The Smiths – Hand In Glove
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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 – 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 – Hand In Glove (Tate Sessions)
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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 – 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 – Girl Afraid
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On “Girl Afraid” Morrisey plays with the word girlfriend as “girl afraid” and boyfriend as “boy afraid”. The song deals with mistaken assumptions in the relationship of said girl
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The Smiths – Pretty Girls Make Graves
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“Pretty Girls Make Graves” is about Morrissey’s view on sex expressed through an encounter with a lustful girl.
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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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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 – Handsome Devil (John Peel Session 18/05/83)
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“Handsome Devil” appears on the November 1984 compilation album Hatful Of Hollow, having been recorded originally during the John Peel session at the BBC, May 31, 1983.
The lyrics
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – I Don't Owe You Anything
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“I Don’t Owe You Anything” tells the story of a person trying to charm someone over Johnny Marr’s smooth groove.
As stated in the book Mozipedia – The Encyclopedia of Morrissey
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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 – These Things Take Time
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“These Things Take Time” is another upbeat Smiths' song with an homoerotic sexual undertone. It was originally released as a B-side to the maxi single version of “What Difference
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The Smiths – What Difference Does It Make?
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“What Difference Does It Make?” is the Smiths' third single in the UK, released on the 16th of January, 1984. The song peaked at #12 on the UK Singles Chart, being relevant in the
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The Smiths – Suffer Little Children
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“Suffer Little Children” is the final track on The Smiths’s self-titled debut album. It is about the Moors murders, but only mentions one of the two murderers involved, namely Myra
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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 – 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 – 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 – That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore (Live in Oxford)
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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 – 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 – What Difference Does It Make? (John Peel Session 18/05/83)
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[Verse 1] / All men have secrets and here is mine / So let it be known / We have been through hell and high tide / I can surely rely on you / And yet you start to recoil / Heavy
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The Smiths – Still Ill (John Peel Session 14/09/83)
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[Verse 1] / I decree today that life / Is simply taking and not giving / England is mine, and it owes me a living / Ask me why and I'll spit in your eye / Oh ask me why and I'll
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The Smiths – Miserable Lie
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“Miserable Lie” tells the story of a naive country boy corrupted by the lustful ways of a prostitute. A quintessential Smiths track.
It is especially notable for its odd song
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