Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before Lyrics
Stop me if you think that you've
Heard this one before
Stop me, oh, stop me
Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before
I still love you, oh, I still love you
...Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love
An emergency stop
I smelt the last ten seconds of life
I crashed down on the crossbar
And the pain was enough to make
A shy, bald, buddhist reflect
And plan a mass murder
Who said lied I'd to her?
Who said I'd lied because I never?
I was detained, I was restrained
And broke my spleen
And broke my knee
(and then he really lays into me)
Friday night in out-patients
Who said I'd lied to her?
Who said I'd lied? - Because I never
It became four
And when I fell on the floor...
...I drank more
Stop me if you think that you've
Heard this one before
Stop me, oh, stop me
Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before
I still love you, oh, I still love you
...Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love

It's about a pathological liar to me, someone who can't stop lying and creating excuses and so ends up in trouble and trys to dig himself out by blaming other people for telling lies on him. who says I lied because I never... I love it because Morrissey sounds like a little kid when he's saying that he phrases it like a child would Top notch stuff

To me it's a relationship break down, the ex girlfriend has been told tales which inevitably ended the relationship, the man finds himself making unreasonable excuses for things that the tales where told on. Innocent things maliciously altered??? He drinks, she finds someone new. He gets beaten up in a drunken state, perhaps making a bit of a scene in the pub in which the new couple are in. Possibility involving the source of the tales???
I love his song, it's very dark. Theres certainly a malicious element.

why do some people think domestic abuse is only levelled at the female?

"only slightly less than i used to..." is great. I feel like that line is a kind of internal afterthought while he's apologising, and trying to cover up.

To me it's a relationship break down, the ex-girlfriend has been told tales which inevitably ended the relationship, whist going through a rough patch, the man finds himself making unreasonable excuses for things that the lies where told on which are innocent things maliciously altered or maybe just not true. He drinks.
The person telling lies is a mutual “friend” the mutual friend then becomes her lover after breaking the relationship. He sees them together and realises what has happened perhaps in the local pub, while drunk causes a scene, they fight and he gets beaten up.
I love his song, it's very dark. There is certainly a malicious element.
How many times did you post this?!
How many times did you post this?!

Yes, yes, there is certainly the hint of someone with a drinking problem. Who apparently is a fighting drunk on top of that. However, the "nothing's changed..." section add a bit more depth. It would seem that our drunk is drinking his way through sadness dealing with his relationship...did she cheat on him? Perhaps the other way around? Either way, he constantly assures her that his drinking and fighting has nothing to do with her, once his "I was delayed" excuse is found wanting.

I agree with tps12 on this one - its a victim of domestioc violence struggling to deal with the violence - making excuses in the hospital.
The thing however best about this song is the line:
I smelt the last ten seconds of life I crashed down on the crossbar And the pain was enough to make A shy, bald, buddhist reflect And plan a mass murder
quite brilliant ! only morrissey could decribe pain in such a way.

I love this song becuse it follows the state of mind of this guy who's turned up drunk in the middle of the night at his girlfriend's house so accurately. He knows he's in the wrong but he's desprately trying to convince himself that it's justified.

It's about the illogical love that lies within violent relationships. The guy beats her everytime he gets drunk and she ends up in hospital with him over and over again, lying to the doctors but she doesn't stop loving him. She loves him 'only slightly less' than she used to. I love the school-boyish 'Who said I lied because I never, I never'. It adds a real picture of the immature and selfish bastard who's hitting his wife/girlfriend. Morrissey is a notorious feminist and this song was written as an encouragement to stand up for yourself and report domestic violence. It was originally meant to be released as a single from Strangeways, Here We Come but, nastily, its due release date was close to an actual mass shooting and the contents were deemed unsuitable for release (due to the fantastically funny and realised Buddhist bit). Girlfriend In A Coma replaced it as the single and also hints at domestic violence and love for a person despite their flaws.

tps12, CharmingMan, RdeC- agreed.
marvellous song