 Genius Meanings
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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 – Stretch out and Wait - Alternate Vocal Version
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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 – 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 (Live in Oxford)
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[Verse 1] / I'd like to drop my trousers to the world / I am a man of means (of slender means) / Each household appliance is like a new science in my town / [Refrain] / And if the
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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 – 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 – 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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The Smiths – The Draize Train
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[Instrumental]
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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 (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / I can feel the soil falling over my head / And as I climb into an icy bed / Oh well, enough said / [Chorus] / I know it's over, still I cling / I don't see what else I
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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 – 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 – 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 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 (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 – 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 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 – 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 – Rubber Ring
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Well respected by Smiths fans and critics alike, “Rubber Ring” is a song about coming of age, and leaving the awkward, difficult period in life that is being a teenager.
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 – Unloveable
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[Intro] / (Unlove—, unlove—, unloveable) / (Unlove—, unlove—, unloveable) / (Unlove—, unlove—, unloveable) / [Verse 1] / I know I'm unloveable / You don't have to tell me / I don't
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Shakespeare's Sister
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“Shakespeare’s Sister” was released as a single in March 1985, and later appeared on the Louder Than Bombs compilation.
The title comes from Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s
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Patti Smith Group – Dancing Barefoot
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Song is dedicated to Jeanne Hébuterne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_H%C3%A9buterne
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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 – 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 – 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 – Panic
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This song was written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr and is the first song to be recorded with the new member at the time, Craig Gannon. The song is influenced by the T.Rex song “
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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 – A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours
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“A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours” opens the album with a dreamlike sequence followed by an otherworldly thumping beat.
A unique feature of the song is that it is one of the
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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 – 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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The Smiths – Still Ill
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“Still Ill” is a 1984 track by The Smiths, composed by lead singer Morrissey and guitarist Marr. The track premiered on the eponymous debut album The Smiths.
The song is primarily
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The Smiths – What’s The World? (Live in Glasgow 1985)
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[Intro] / Um, this song was written by, um / Um / [Verse 1] / What would you sell? / Loose glasses and suit / Heart and soul / Won't wear out / That's not enough! / I wonder what's
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The Smiths – Oscillate Wildly
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[Instrumental]
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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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Rejjie Snow (Ft. Caroline Smith) – 23
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[Verse 1: Rejjie Snow & Caroline Smith] / I'm at home smoking weed all day / Scratch marks on my escalade / And you gotta be the anecdote / I tattooed you right on my brain / Then
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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 Cure – Close to Me
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“Close To Me” was the second single from The Head On The Door. It was a top 30 hit in several countries overseas including The Cure’s homeland the UK.
Robert Smith wrote it about
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