 Genius Meanings
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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 – William, It Was Really Nothing (Peel session, August 1984)
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[Verse 1] / The rain falls hard on a humdrum town / This town has dragged you down / Oh the rain falls hard on a humdrum town / This town has dragged you down / And everybody's got
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 Associates – Stephen, You're Really Something
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Written in response to Morrissey in The Smiths' “William, It Was Really Nothing.”
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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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Genius Srpski Prevodi – The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing (Srpski Prevod)
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[Prevod pesme "William, It Was Really Nothing" od The Smiths] / [Strofa 1] / Kiša pljušti u dosadnom gradu / Ovaj grad te je ponizio / Oh, kiša pljušti u dosadnom gradu / Ovaj grad
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SALEM (UK) – William, It Was Really Something
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[Intro] / Ooh-wah-ooh-wah-ooh-wah-ooh / Ooh-wah-ooh-wah-ooh-wah-ooh / [Verse 1] / In the summer, I became self parody / I didn't see the sun except to sleep / I didn't notice hurt
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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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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 – The Draize Train
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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 – Accept Yourself (David Jensen Session 25/08/83)
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Initially released as the B-Side to the 12-inch single of “This Charming Man,”, a recording of “Accept Yourself” done for John Peel’s BBC 1 Radio Show was later released in 1984 on
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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 – 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 – 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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Muse – Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
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[Verse 1] / Good times for a change / See, the luck I've had / Can make a good man / Turn bad / [Chorus 1] / So please please please / Let me, let me, let me / Let me get what I
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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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Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
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On their controversial self-titled album which came to be known as the Black Album, “Nothing Else Matters” was perhaps the greatest example of the new Metallica sound that
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The Smiths – Back to the Old House (John Peel Session 9/14/83)
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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 / There / [Verse
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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 – 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 – 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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