 Genius Meanings
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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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Sandie Shaw – Heaven Knows I'm Missing Him Now
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At first he meant no more than anyone to me / Just for right I'll glady win to love / And like a fool I took the chances / But that I had all the answers / And now I realized too
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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 – 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 – 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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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Toby, Take a Bow
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I've never seen you so awful / I found you at the bottom of a Russian novel / Gold medal and a crown / A cardigan and a frown / All maladjusted and clever / The greatest Smiths fan
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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 – 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 – 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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Horrible Histories (Ft. Al Murray, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard & Mathew Baynton) – Charles Dickens
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[CHARLES DICKENS (Baynton)] / I lived a happy life ‘til I was ten years old / When debt landed dad in prison and our country house was sold / Lodged with a lady in her London flat
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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 – 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 – 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 – These Things Take Time (David Jensen Session 26/06/83)
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[Verse 1] / Mine eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wunderkind / You took me behind a disused railway line / And said, "I know a place where we can go / Where we are not known
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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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Luvblue – HEARD ‘BOUT ME?
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[Intro] / In my life— / People who don't care if I, people who don't care if I / In my life— / People who don't care if I, people who don't care if I / [Chorus] / What you heard
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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 – 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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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 – 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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Rick Price – Heaven Knows
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[Verse 1] / She's always on my mind / From the time I wake up / 'Til I close my eyes / She's everywhere I go / She's all I know / [Verse 2] / Though she's so far away / It just
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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 – The Draize Train
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[Instrumental]
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Shane Smith & the Saints – Heaven Knows
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[Verse 1] / I saw all sides of man in New Orleans / Sang songs of the old coal mines / The words we read that night of the medicine man / Gave heed to the changing times / Heard
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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 – 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 – 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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