@SONG: The Smiths Reel Around The Fountain You've Got Everything Now Miserable Lie Pretty Girls Make Graves The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Still Ill Hand In Glove Hatful Of Hollow What Difference Does It Make I Don't Owe You Anything Suffer Little Children @SONG: Hatful of Hollow William It Was Really Nothing What Difference Does It Make These Things Take Time This Charming Man How Soon Is Now? Handsome Devil Hand In Glove Still Ill Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now This Night Has Opened My Eyes You've Got Everything Now Accept Yourself Girl Afraid Back To The Old House Reel Around The Fountain Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want @SONG: Meat Is Murder The Headmaster Ritual Rusholme Ruffians I Want The One I Can't Have What She Said That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore Nowhere Fast Well I Wonder Barbarism Begins At Home Meat Is Murder @SONG: The Queen Is Dead The Queen Is Dead Frankly Mr. Shankly I Know It's All Over Never Had No One Ever Cemetery Gates Big Mouth Strikes Again The Boy With A Thorn In His Side Vicar In A Tutu There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others @SONG: The World Won't Listen Panic Ask London Big Mouth Strikes Again Shakespeare's Sister There is a Light That Never Goes Out Shoplifters Of The World Unite The Boy With The Thorn In His Side Asleep Unloveable Half A Person Stretch Out And Wait That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore Oscillate Wildly You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby Rubber Ring @SONG: Louder Than Bombs Is It Really So Strange Sheila Take A Bow Shoplifters Of The World Unite Sweet and Tender Hooligan Half A Person London Panic Girl Afraid Shakespeare's Sister William It Was Really Nothing You Just Haven't Earned It Yet,Baby Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now Ask Golden Lights Oscillate Wildly These Things Take Time Rubber Ring Back To The Old House Hand In Glove Stretch Out And Wait Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want This Night Has Opened My Eyes Unloveable Asleep @SONG: Strangeways Here We Come A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours I Started Something I Couldn't Finish Death Of A Disco Dancer Girlfriend In A Coma Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me Unhappy Birthday Paint A Vulgar Picture Death At One's Elbow I Won't Share You @SONG: "Hand in Glove" Hand in Glove Handsome Devil @SONG: "This Charming Man" (original) This Charming Man Jeane (Manchester) This Charming Man (manchester) This Charming Man(London) Accept Yourself Wonderful Woman (New York) This Charming Man (New York) This Charming Man(instrumental) @SONG: "What Difference Does It Make" What Difference Does It Make Back to The Old House These Things Take Time (12") @SONG: "Hand in Glove" (Sandie Shaw w/The Smiths) Hand In Glove I Don't Owe You Anything Jeane (12") @SONG: "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now Suffer Little Children Girl Afraid (12") @SONG: "William It Was Really Nothing" William It Was Really Nothing Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want How Soon Is Now? @SONG: "How Soon Is Now?" How Soon Is Now? Well I Wonder Oscillate Wildly (12") @SONG: "Shakespeare's Sister" Shakespeare's Sister What She Said @SONG: "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore Nowhere Fast(live) (12") Stretch Out And Wait(live) (12") Shakespeare's Sister(live) (12") Meat Is Murder(live) @SONG: "Big Mouth Strikes Again" Bigmouth Strikes Again Money Changes Everything Unloveable (12") @SONG: "Panic" Panic Vicar In A Tutu The Draize Train (12") @SONG: "Ask" Ask Cemetery Gates Golden Lights (12") @SONG: "Shoplifters of the World Unite" Shoplifters of the World Unite" Half A Person London (12") @SONG: "Sheila Take A Bow" Sheila Take A Bow Is It really So Strange? Sweet And Tender Hooligan @SONG: "Girlfriend In A Coma" Girlfriend In A Coma I Keep Mine Hidden Work Is A Four Letter Word (12") @SONG: "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" I Started Something I Couldn't Finish Pretty Girls Make Graves Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others @SONG: "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me Rusholme Ruffians Nowhere Fast (12") William, It Was Really Nothing (CD) @SONG: "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before Work Is A Four Letter Word Girlfriend In a Coma I Keep Mine Hidden @SONG: "Reel Around the Fountain" It's time the tale was told of how you took a child and you made him old Reel around the fountain slap me on the patio I'll take it now Fifteen minutes with you well, I wouldn't say no people said that you were virtually dead and they were so wrong fifteen minutes with you well, i wouldn't say no people said that you were easily led and they were half-right I dreamt about you last night and i fell out of bed twice you can pin and mount me like a butterfly but take me to the haven of your bed was something that you never said two lumps, please you're the bee's knees but so am I Meet me at the fountain shove me on the patio I'll take it slowly Fifteen minutes with you oh I wouldn't say no people see no worth in you oh but I do @SONG: "You've Got Everything Now" As merry as the days were long I was right and you were long back at the old grey school I would win and you would lose But you've got everything now and what a terrible mess I've made of my life No, I've never had a job because I've never wanted one I've seen you smile but I've never really heard you laugh So who is rich and who is poor? I cannot say... You are your mother's only son and you're a desperate one But I don't want a lover I just want to be seen in the back of your car A friendship sadly lost? Well, this is true ...and yet, it's false Did I ever tell you , by the way I never did like your face But you've got everything now and what a terrible mess I've made of my life No, I've never had a job because I'm too shy But I don't want a lover I just want to be tied to the back of your car. @SONG: "Miserable Lie" So, goodbye please stay with your own kind and I'll stay with mine There's something against us it's not time So, goodbye I know I hardly say how much I love your casual way but please put your tongue away a little higher and we're well away the dark nights are drawing in and your humour is as black as them I look at yours, you laugh at mine and"love" is just a miserable lie you have destroyed my flower like-life not once-but twice you have corrupt my innocent mind not once-but twice I know that wind-swept mystical air it means: I'd like to see your underwear I recognise that mystical air it means: I'd like to see your underwear what do we get for the trouble and pain? just a rented room in Whalley Range into the depths of the criminal world I followed her... I need advice, I need advice because nobody ever looks at me twice I'm just a country-mile behind the world I'm just a country mile behind the whole world so take me when you go @SONG: "Pretty Girls Make Graves" Upon the sand,upon the bay "there is a quick and easy way" you say before you illustrate I'd rather state: "I'm not the man you think I am I'm not the man you think I am " And Sorrow's native son he will not smile for anyone And pretty girls makes the graves End of the pier, end of the bay you tug my arm and say:"Give into lust, give up to lust, oh heaven knows we'll soon be dust..." But I'm not the man you think I am I'm not the man you think I am And Sorrow's native son he will not rise for anyone And pretty girls make graves I could have been wild and I could have been free but Nature played this trick on me She wants it Now and she will not wait but she's too rough and I'm too delicate Then on the sand another man, he takes her hand and a smile lights up her stupid face (and well, it would) I lost my faith in Womanhood I lost my faith in Womanhood I lost my faith @SONG: "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" Please don't cry the ghost and the storm outside will not invade this sacred shire nor infiltrate your mind my life down I shall lie if the bogey-man should try to play tricks on your sacred mind to tease, torment and tantalise wavering shadows loom a piano plays in an empty room there'll be blood on the cleaver tonight when darkness lifts and the room is bright I'll still be by your side for you are all that matters and I'll love you till the day I die there never need to be longing in your eyes as long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine ceiling shadows shimmy by and when the wardrobe towers like a beast of prey there's a sadness in your beautiful eyes you're untouched, unsoiled, wonderous eyes my life down I shall lie should restless spirts try to play tricks on you sacred mind but whom I never gave a name I just looked into his wonderous eyes and said" never never never again" all too soon I did return just like a moth to a flame so rattle my bones all over the stones because I'm only a beggar-man whom nobody owns see how words as old as sin fit me like a glove I'm here and here I'll stay together we lie, together we pray there never need be longing in your eyes as long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine @SONG: "This Charming Man" Punctured bicycle on a hillside desolate Will nature make a man of me yet? Then this charming car this charming man Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat? I would go out tonight but I haven't got a stitch to wear This man said "It's gruesome that someone so handsome should care A jumped-up pantry boy who never knew his place He said "Return the ring" (he knows so much about these things) This charming man This charming man I would go out tonight but I haven't got a stitch to wear This man said "It's gruesome that someone so handsome should care A jumped-up pantry boy who never knew his place He said "Return the ring" (he knows so much about these things) @SONG: "Still Ill" 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 ask me why, and I'll spit in your eye but we cannot cling to the old dreams anymore no, we cannot cling to the old dreams anymore Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno... Under the iron bridge we kissed and although I ended up with sore lips it just wasn't like the old days anymore no, it wasn't like those days am I still ill? Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body ? I dunno... Ask me why, and I'll die ask me why, and I'll die and if you must go to work tomorrow well, if I were you I wouldn't bother for there are brighter sides to life and I should know because I've seen them but not very often... under the iron bridge we kissed and although I ended up with sore lips it just wasn't like the old days anymore no, it wasn't like those days am I still ill? @SONG: "Hand In Glove" 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 please and everything depends upon how near you stand to me And if the people stare then the people stare I really don't know and I really don't care Hand in glove the Good People laugh yes, we may be hidden by rags but we have something they'll never have So, hand in glove I stake my claim I'll fight to the last breath If they dare touch a hair on your head I'll fight to the last breath The Good Life is out there, somewhere so stay on my arm, you little charmer But I know my luck too well and I'll probably never see you again. @SONG: "What Difference Does It Make?" 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 words are so lightly thrown but still I'd leap in front of a flying bullet for you So, what difference does it make? so, what difference does it make? it makes none but you have gone and you must be looking very old tonight The devil will find work for idle hands to do I stole and I lied, and why? because you asked me to! but now you make feel so ashamed because I've only got two hands well, I'm still fond of you So, what difference does it make? so, what difference does it make? it makes none but you have gone and your prejudice won't keep you warm tonight So, no more apologies no more apologies I'm too tired I'm too sick and tired and I'm feeling very sick and ill today But I'm still fond of you @SONG: "I Don't Owe You Anything" Bought on stolen wine a nod was the first step you know very well what was coming next did I really walk all this way just to hear you say "oh I don't want to go out tonight" but you will for you must I don't owe you anything but you owe me something repay me now you should never go to them let them come to you just like I do you should not go to them let them come to you just like I do Too freely on your lips words prematurely said oh but I know what will make you smile tonight Life is never kind life is never kind oh but I know what will make you smile tonight @SONG: "Suffer Little Children" Over the moors,take me to the moors dig a shallow grave and I'll lay me down Lesley-Anne, with your pretty white beads oh John, you'll never be a man and you'll never see your home again oh Manchester, so much to answer for Edward, see those alluring lights? tonight will be your very last night a woman said "I know my son is dead I'll never rest my hands on his scared head" Hindley wakes and Hindley says: "Wherever he has gone, I have gone " But fresh lilaced moorland fields cannot hide the stoild stench of death Hindley wakes and Hindley says: "Whatever he has done, I have done" But this is no easy ride for a child cries "find me...find me, nothing more we're on a sullen misty moor we may be dead and we may be gone but we will be right by your side until the day you die this is no easy ride we will haunt you when you laugh yes, you could say we're a team you might sleep BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM!" Oh Manchester, so much to answer for Oh Manchester, so much to answer for Over the moor, I'm on the moor the child is on the moor @SONG: "William, It Was Really Nothing" The rain falls hard on the humdrum town this town has dragged you down oh, the rain falls hard on the humdum town this town has dragged you down and everybody's got to live their own life and God knows I've got to live mine God knows I've got to live mine William, William it was really nothing William , William it was really nothing How can you stay with a fat girls who'll say: "Would you like to marry me and if you like you can buy the ring" she doesn't care about anything would you like to marry me and if you like you can buy the ring I don't dream about anything William, William it was really nothing William, William. @SONG: "These Things Take Time" Mine eyes have seen the glory of the scared wunderknid you took me behind a dis-used railway line and you said "I know a place we can go where we are not known" and then you gave me something that I won't forget too soon but I can't believe that you'd ever care and this is why you'll never care but these things take time and I know that I'm the most inept that ever stepped I'm spellbound, but a woman divides and the hills are alive with celibate cries but you know where you came from, you know where you're going and you know where you belong you said I was ill, and you were not wrong but I can't believe that you'd ever care and so, you never cared but these things take time and I know that I'm the most inept that ever stepped Oh the alcoholic afternoons when we sat in your room they meant more to me than any living thing on earth they had more worth than any living thing on earth vivid and in your prime you will leave me behind you will leave me behind @SONG: "How Soon Is Now?" I am the son and the heir of a shyness that is criminally vulgar I am the son and the heir of nothing in particular You shut your mouth how can you say I go about things the wrong way I am Human and I need to be loved Just like everybody else does There's a club, if you like to go you could meet somebody who really loves you so you go, and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home, and you cry and you want to die When you say it's gonna happen "now" well, when exactly do you mean? see I've already waited too long and all my hope is gone @SONG: "Handsome Devil" All streets are crammed with things eager to be held I know what hands are four and I'd like to help myself you ask me the time but I sense something more and I would like to give you what I think you are asking for you handsome devil you handsome devil Let me get my hands on your mammary glands let me get your head on the conjugal bed I say, I say, I say I crack the whip and you skip but you deserve it A boy in the bush is worth two in the hand I think I can help you get through your exams (refrain) And when we're in your scholarly room who will swallow whom? (refrain) There's more to life than books, who know but not much more. @SONG: "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" I was happy on the haze of a drunken hour but heaven knows I'm miserable now I was looking for a job, and then I found a job and heavens know I'm miserable now In my life why do i give valuable time to people who don't care if I live or die Two lovers entwined passed me by and heavens knows I'm miserable now I was looking for a job, and then I found a job and heavens know I'm miserable now In my life why do i give valuable time to people who don't care if I live or die What she asked of me at the end of the day Caligula would have blushed "You've been the house too long" she said and I naturally fled In my life why do I smile at people who I'd much rather kick in the eye I was happy on the haze of a drunken hour but heaven knows I'm miserable now "You've been the house too long" she said and I naturally fled In my life why do i give valuable time to people who don't care if I live or die @SONG: "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" In a river the colour of lead emerse a baby's head wrap her up in the News Of The World dump her on a doorstep, girl this night has opened my eyes and I will never sleep again You kicked and cried like a bullied child a grown man of twenty-five he said he'd cure your ills but he didn't and he never will so, save your life because you've only got one The dream is gone but the baby is real oh you did a good thing she could have been a poet or, she could have been a fool oh you did a bad thing am I'm not happy and I'm not sad A shoeless child on a swing reminds you of your own again she took away your troubles oh but then again she left pain so, save your life because you've only got one The dream is gone but the baby is real oh you did a good thing she could have been a poet or, she could have been a fool oh you did a bad thing am I'm not happy and I'm not sad @SONG: "Accept Yourself" Everyday you must say oh how do I feel about my life anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes when will you accept yourself? I am sick and I am dull and I am plain how dearly I'd love to get carried away but dreams have a knack of just not coming through and time is against me now who and what to blame? anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes when will you accept yourself? anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes everyday you must say how do I feel about the past other conquered love-but I ran I sat in my room and I drew up a plan but plans can fall through as so often they do and time is against me now and there's no one left to blame tell me when will you when will you accept your life the one that you hate anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes everyday you must say how do I feel about my shoes they make me awkward and plain how dearly I would love to kick with the fray but I once had a dream and it never came true and time is against me now and there's no one but yourself to blame anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes when will you accept yourself? @SONG: "Girl Afraid" Girl afraid where does his intentions lay? Or does he even have any? She says: "He never really looks at me I give him every opportunity in the room downstairs he sat and stared in the room downstairs he sat in stared I'll never make that mistake again !" Boy afraid prudence never pays and everything she wants costs money "But she doesn't even LIKE me!" and I know because she said so in the room downstairs she sat and stared in the room downstairs she sat and stared I'll never make that mistake again!" @SONG: "Back to the Old House" 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 When you cycled by here began all my dreams the saddest thing I've ever seen and you never knew how much I really liked you because I never even told you oh, but I meant to Are you still there? or have you moved away? I would love to go back to the old house but I never will @SONG: "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" Good times for a change See, the luck I've had would make a good man turn bad So please please please let me, let me, let me get what I want this time Haven't had a dream in a long time See, the life I've had would make a good man bad So for once in my life let me get what I want Lord knows it would be the first time Lord knows it would be the first time @SONG: "The Headmaster Ritual" Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools spineless swines cemented mines Sir leads the troops jealous of youth same old suit since 1962 he does the military two-step down the nape of my neck I wanna go home I don't want to stay give up education is a bad mistake mid-week on the playing fields Sir thwacks you on the knees knees you in the groin elbow in the face I wanna go home I don't want to stay Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools spineless bastards all Sir leads the troops jealous of youth same old jokes since 1902 he does the military two-step down the nape of my neck I wanna go home I don't want to stay give up life as a bad mistake please excuse me from gym I've got this terrible cold coming on he grabs and devours he kicks me in the showers kicks me in the showers and he grabs and devours I wanna go home I don't want to stay @SONG: "Rusholme Ruffians" The last night at the fair by the big wheel generator a boy is stabbed and his money is grabbed and the air hangs heavy like a dulling wine she is famous she is funny an engagement ring doesn't mean a thing to a mind consumed by brass(money) and though I walk home alone my faith in love is still devout the last night at the fair from a seat on a whirling waltzer her skirt ascends for a watching eye it's a hideous trait( on her mother's side) and though I walk home alone my faith in love is still devout then someone falls in love and someone's beaten up and the senses being dulled are mine and someone falls in love someone's beaten up and the senses being dulled are mine and though I walk home alone my faith in love is still devout this is the last night of the fair and the grease in the hair of a speedway operator is all a tremulous heart requires a schoolgirl is denied she said "How quickly would I die if I jumped from the top of the parachutes?" this is the last night of the fair and the grease in the hair of a speedway operator is all a tremulous heart requires a schoolgirl is denied she said "How quickly would I die if I jumped from the top of the parachutes?" scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen (this means you really love me) scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen (this means you really love me) and though I walk home alone my faith in love is still devout @SONG: "I Want the One I Can't Have" On the day that your mentality catches up with your biology I want the one I can't have and it's driving me mad it's written all over my face (repeat) A double-bed and a stalwart lover, for sure these are the riches of the poor A double-bed and a stalwart lover, for sure these are the riches of the poor (refrain) a tough kid who sometimes swallows nails raised on Prisoner's Aid he killed a policeman when he was thirteen and somehow that really impressed me it's written all over my face On the day that your mentality catches up with your biology And if you ever need self-validation just meet me in the alley by the railway-station it's written all over my face @SONG: "What She Said" What she said: "How come someone hasn't noticed that I'm dead and decided to bury me God knows, I'm ready" What she said was but then, all the rejection she's had to pretend to be happy could only be idiocy What she said was not for the job or lover that she never had What she read all heady books she'd sit and prophesise (it took a tattoed boy from Birkenhead to really really open her eyes) What she read all heady books she'd sit and prophesise (it took a tattoed boy from Birkenhead to really really open her eyes) What she said: "I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death AND I NEED TO CLING TO SOMETHING What she said: "I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death AND I NEED TO CLING TO SOMETHING!" @SONG: "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" 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 other people who feel so very lonely their only desire is to die well I'm afraid it doesn't make me smile I wish I could laugh but that joke isn't funny anymore it's too close to home and it's too near the bone it's too close to home and it's too near the bone more than you'll ever know It was dark as I drove the point home and on cold leather seats well, it suddenly struck me I just might die with a smile on my face after all I've seen this happen in other people's lives and now it's happening in mine @SONG: "Nowhere Fast" 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 and if a day came when I felt a natural emotion I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump in the ocean and when a train goes by it's such a sad sound I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen every sensible child will know what this means the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy on her terms and if the day came when I felt a natural emotion I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump in the ocean and when a train goes by it's such a sad song And when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me and if the day came when I felt a natural emotion I'd get such a shock I'd probably lie in the middle of the street and die I'd lie down and die @SONG: "Well I Wonder" Well I wonder do you hear me when you sleep? I hoarsely cry Well I wonder do you see me when we pass? I half-die Please keep me in mind please keep me in mind Gasping-but somehow still alive this is the fierce last stand of all I am Gasping-dying-but somehow still alive this is the final stand of all I am Please keep me in mind @SONG: "Barbarism Begins At Home" 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 A crack on the head is what you get for not asking and a crack on the head is what you get for asking @SONG: "Meat Is Murder" Heifer whines could be human cries closer comes the screaming knife this beautiful creature must die this beautiful creature must die a death for no reason and death for reason is MURDER and the flesh you so fancifully fry is not succulent, tasty or nice it's death for no reason and death for no reason is MURDER and the calf that you carve with a smile is MURDER and the turkey you festively slice is MURDER do you know how animals die? kitchen aroma aren't very homely it's not "comforting," "cheery" or kind it's sizzling blood and the unholy stench of MURDER it's not "natural," "normal" or kind the fleas you so fancifully fry as you savour the flavour of MURDER NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER who hears when animals cry? @SONG: "The Queen Is Dead" Farewell to this lands cheerless marches hemmed in like a boar between arches her very Lowness with her head in a sling Im truely sorry-but it sounds like a wonderful thing dear Charles, dont you ever crave to appear on the front of the Daily mail dressed in your Mother's bridal veil? So, I checked all the registered historical facts and I was shocked into shame to discover how Im the 18th pale descendent of some, old queen or other has the world changed, or have I changed? has the world changed, or have I changed? as some 9-year old tough peddles drugs (I never even knew what drugs were) And so, I broke into the Palace with a sponge and a rusty spanner she said: "Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing" I said: "that's nothing -you should hear me play piano" We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry and we can talk about precious things but when you are tied to your mother's apron not one talks about castration We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry and we can talk about precious things like love and law and poverty these are the things that kill me We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry and we can talk about precious things but the rain that flattens my hair theses are the things that kill me Passed the Pub that saps your body and the church who'll snatch your money the Queen is dead, boys and it's so lonely on a limb Pass the Pub that wrecks your body and the church-all they want is your money the Queen is dead, boys` you can trust me, boys life is very long, when you're lonely life is very long, when you're lonely life is very long, when you're lonely life is very long, when you're lonely @SONG: "Frankly, Mr. Shankly" Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position Ive held it pays my way, but it corrodes my soul I want to leave you will not miss me I want to go down in musical history Frankly, Mr Shankly, Im a sickening wreck Ive got the 21st Century breathing down my neck I must move fast, you understand me I want to go down in celluloid history Fame, Fame, fatal Fame it can play hideous tricks on the brain but still I rather be Famous than righteous or holy, any day but sometimes Id feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill I want to Live and I want to Love I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position I've held it pays my way and it corrodes my soul oh, I didnt realise that you wrote poetry (I didnt realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry) Frankly, Mr Shankly, since you ask you are a flatulent pain the arse I do not mean to be so rude but still, I must speck frankly, Mr Shankly @SONG: "I Know It's Over" Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head and as i climb into an empty bed Oh well, Enough said I know it's over-still I cling I don't know where else I can go Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head see, the sea want s to take me the knife wants to cut me do you think you can help me? Sad veiled bride, please be happy handsome groom, give her room loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly (although she needs you more than she loves you) and I know it's over and it never really began but in my heart it was so real and you even spoke to me and said: "If you're so funny then why are you on your own tonight? and if you are so clever then why are you on your own tonight? if you're so terribly good looking then why do you sleep alone tonight? because tonight is just like any other night that's why you're on your own tonight with your triumphs and your charms while they are in each other's arms.." It's so easy to laugh it's so easy to hate it takes strength to be gentle and kind It's so easy to laugh it's so easy to hate it takes guts to be gentle and kind love is Natural and Real but not for you, my love not tonight my love love is Natural and Real but not for such as you and I, my love Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head Oh Mother, I can fell the soil falling over my head @SONG: "Never Had No One Ever" When you walk without ease on these the very streets where you were raised I had a really bad dream it lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days Never had no one ever. @SONG: "Cemetry Gates" 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 are on your side while Wilde is on mine So we go inside and we gravely read the stones all those people all those lives where are they now ? with loves, and hates and passions just like mine they were born and then they lived and then they died which seems so unfair and I wantr to crv You say: "ere thrice the sun hath done salutation to the dawn" and you claim these words as your own but Im well-read, have heard them said a hundred times (maybe less, maybe more) if you must write prose/poems the words you use should be your own dont plagiarise or take "on loans" there's alweays someone, somewhere with a big nose, who knows and who trips you up and laughs when you fall You say: "ere long done do does did " words which could only be your own you then produce the text from whence was ripped (some dizzy whore, 1804) A dreaded sunny day so let's go where we're happy so I meet you at the cemetry gates Keats and Yeats are on your side A dreaded sunny day so let's go where we're wanted so I meet you at the cemetry gates Keats and Yeats are on your side but you lose because Wilde is on mine @SONG: "Bigmouth Strikes Again" Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said Id like to smash every tooth in your head Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said by right s you should be bludgeoned in your bed and now I know how Joan of Arc felt now I know how Joan of Arc felt as the flames roseto her roman nose and her Walkman stared to melt Bibmouth, bigmouth bigmouth strikes again and Ive got no right to take my place with the Human race and now I know how Joan of Arc felt now I know of Joan of Arc felt as the flames rose to her roman nose and her hearing aid started to melt Bigmouth, bigmouth bigmouth strikes again and Ive got no right to take my place with the Human race @SONG: "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side" The boy with the thorn in his side behind the hatred there lies a murderous desire for love how can they look into my eyes and still they dont believe me how can they hear me say those words and still they dont believe me and if they don't believe me now will they ever believe me? and if they don't believe me now will they ever believe me? The boy with the thorn in his side behind the hatred there lies a plundering desire for love how can they see the Love in our eyes and still they don't believe us and after all this time they don't want to believe us and if they dont believe us now will they ever believe us ? andd when you want to Live how do you start ? where do you go ? who do you know? @SONG: "Vicar in a Tutu" I was minding mind business lifting some lead off the roof of the Holy Name church it was worthwhile living a laughable life just to set my eyes on a blistering sight of a vicar in a tu-tu he's not strange he just wants to live his life this way a scanty bit of a thing with a decorative ring that wouldn't cover the head of a child as Rose collects the money in the cannister who comes sliding down the bannister the vicar in a tu-tu he's not strange he just wants to live his life this way the monkish monsignor with a head full of plaster said "my man, get your vile soul dry-cleaned" as Rose counts the money in the cannister as natural as rain he dances again vicar in a tu-tu The next day in the pulpit with Freedom and Ease combating ignoranca,dust and disease as Rose counts the money in the cannister as natural as rain he dances agian the fabric of a tu-tu any man could get us to and I am a living sign . @SONG: "There is a Light that Never Goes Out" Take me out tonight where there's music and there's people who are young and alive driving in your car I never never want to go home because I havent got one anymore take me out tonight because I want to see people and I want to see lights driving in your car oh please dont drop me home because it's not my home, it's their home, and Im welcome no morw and if a double-decker bus crashes in to us to die by your side such a heavenly way to die and if a ten ton truck kills the both of us to die by your side the pleasure and the privilege is mine take me out tonight oh take me anywhere, I dont care and in the darken underpass I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last (but then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask) take me out tonight take me anywhere, I dont care just driving in your car I never never want to go home because I havent got one I havent got one. @SONG: "Some Girls are Bigger Than Others" From the ice-age to the dole-age there is but one concern and I have just discover some girls are bigger than others some girls are bigger than others some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: some girls are bigger than others some girls are bigger than others some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers. @SONG: "Panic" Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again on the Leeds side-streets that you slip down I wonder to myself Hopes may rise on the Grasmeres But Honey Pie, you're not safe here So you run down To the safety of the town But there's Panic on the streets of Carlisle Dublin, Dundee, Humberside I wonder to myself Burn down the Disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music they constantly play On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down On the provincial towns that you jog 'round Hang the D.J.,. Hang the D.J.,.Hang the D.J.. Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J., Hang the D.J.. HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J. HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J., HANG THE D.J. @SONG: "Ask" Shyness is nice, but Shyness can stop you From doing all the things in life That you'd like to So, if there's something you'd like to try ASK ME-I WON'T SAY "NO"-HOW COULD I? Coyness is nice, but , Coyness can stop you from saying all the things in life that you want to If there's something that you'd like to try ASK ME-I WON'TSAY"NO"-HOW COULD I? Spending warm, Summer days indoors Writing fringhtening verse To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg ASK ME, ASK ME ,ASK ME ASK ME, ASK ME ,ASK ME Because if it's not Love Then it's the Bomb That will bring us together Nature is a language-can't you read? Nature is a language-can't you read? ASK ME, ASK ME ,ASK ME ASK ME, ASK ME ,ASK ME Because if it's not Love Then it's the Bomb That will bring us together @SONG: "London" Smoke Lingers 'round your fingers Train Heave on - to Euston Do you think you've made The right decision this time? You left Your tired family grieving And you think they're sad because you're leaving But didn't you see the Jealousy in the eyes Of the ones who had to stay behind? And do you think you've made The right decision thins time? You left Your girlfriend on the platform With thei really ragged notion that you'll return But she knows That when he goes He really goes So do you think you've made The right decision this time? @SONG: "Shakespeare's Sister" Young bones groan And the rocks below, say: "throw your skinny body down, son " But I am going to meet the one I love So, please don't stand in my way Because I'm going to meet the one I love No, Mamma, let me go! Young bones groan And the rocks below, say: "Throw you white bidy down" But I am going to meet the one I love At last! At last ! At last ! I am going to meet the one I love La-de-da, la-de-da No, Mamma, let me go ! I thought that if you had An acoustic guitar Then it meant that you were A Protest Singerr Oh I can smile about it now But at the time it was terrible No, Mamma. let me go @SONG: "Shoplifters of the World Unite" Learn to love me Assemble the ways Now, today, tomorrow and always My only weakness is a list of crimes My only weakness is...well, never mind Shoplifters of the world Unite and take over Shoplifters of the world Hand it over Hand it over Hand it over Learn to love me Assemble th e ways Now, today, tomorrow and always My only weakness is a listed crime But last night the plans of a future war Was all I saw on Channel Four Shoplifters of the world Unite and take over Shoplifters of the World Hand it over Hand it over Hand it over A heartless hand on my shoulder A push-and it's over Alabaster crashes down (Six months is a long time ) I tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But I was bored before I even began I was bored before I even began Shoplifters of the world Unite and take over Shoplifters of the world Unite and take over Shoplifters of the world take over @SONG: "Asleep" Sing me to sleep Sing me to sleep I'm tired and I I want to go to bed Sing me to sleep Sing me to sleep And then leave me alone Don't try to wake me in the morning "Cause I will be gone Don't feel bad for me I want you to know Deep in the cell of my heart I will feel so glad to go Sing me to sleep Sing me to sleep I don't want to wake up On my own anymore Sing to me Sing to me I don't want to wake up On my own anymore Don't feel bad for me I want you to know Deep in the cell of my heart I really want to go There is another world There is a better world Well, there must be Well, there must be Bye bye @SONG: "Unloveable" I know I'm unloveable You don't have tpo tell me I don't have much in my life But take it-it's yours I know I'm unloveable You don't have to tell me Message received Loud and clear I don't have much in my life But take it-it's yours I wear Black on the outside Because Black is how I feel on the inside And if I seem a little strange Well, that's because I am But I know that you would like me If only you could see me If only you would meet me @SONG: "Half a Person" Call me morbid, call me pale I've spent six years on your trail Six long years on your trail Call me morbid, call me pale I've spent six years on your trail Six full years of my life on your trail And if you have five seconds to spare Then I'll tell you the story of my life: Sixteen, clumsy and shy I went to London and I I booked myself in at the Y...W.C.A I said: "I like it here...can I stay? I like it here can I stay? And, do you have a vacancy For a Back-scrubber?" She was left behind, and sour And she wrote to me on the hour She said: "In the days when you were hopelessly poor I just liked you more..." So if you have five seconds to spare Then I'll tell you the story of my life: Sixteen, clumsy and shy I went to London and I I booked myself in at the Y...W.C.A I said: "I like it here...can I stay? I like it here can I stay? And, do you have a vacancy For a Back-scrubber?"Call me morbid call me pale I've spent too long on your tail Far too long Chasing your tail And if you have five seconds to spare Then I'll tell you the story of my life: Sixteen, clumsy and shy That's the story of my life Sixteen, clumsy and shy The story of my life That's the story of my life That's the story of my life That's the story of my life @SONG: "Stretch Out and Wait" Off the high-rise estate What's at the back of your mind Your face I can see And it's desperately kind But what's at the back of your mind? Two icy-cold hands conducting the way It's the Eskimo blood in my veins Amid concrete and clay And general decay Nature must still find away So ignore all; the codes of the day Let your juvenile impulses sway This way and that way This way and that way God, how sex implores you To let yourself lose yourself Stretch out and wait Stretch out and wait Let you puny body lie down, lie down As we lie, you say As we lie, you say Strectch out and wait Strectch out and wait Let you puny body lie down, lie down As we lie, you say: Will the world end in the day time? (I really don't know ) Or will the world end in the night time? (I really don't know) And is there any point ever having children ? I really don't klnow All I do know is that we're Here and it's Know So stretch out and wait Strectch out and wait There is no debate, no debate, no debate How can you consciously contempplate When there's no debate, no debate Stretch out and wait @SONG: "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby" If you're windering why All the lovethat 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 You just haven't earned it yet, baby You just haven't earned it yet, son You just haven't earned it yet, baby You must suffer and cry for a longer time You just haven't earned it yet, baby And I'm telling you now If you're wondering why When all I wanted from life is to be Famous I have tried so long, it's all gone wrong I'll tell you why I'll tell you why I'll tell you why You just haven't earned it yet, baby You just haven't earned it yet, son You just haven't earned it yet, baby You must suffer and cry for a longer time You just haven't earned it yet, Baby And I'm telling you now Today I am remembering the time When they pulled me back And held me down And looked me in the eyes and said You just haven't earned it yet, baby You just haven't earned it yet, son You just haven't earned it yet, baby You must suffer and cry for a longer time You just haven't earned it yet, baby And I'm telling you now. @SONG: "Rubber Ring" A sad fact widely known How the most impassionate song To a lonely soul Is so easily outgrown But don't forget the songs That made you smile And the songs that made you cry When you lay in awe On the bedroom floor And said: "Oh, smother me, Mother..." The passing of time And of all its crimes Is making me sad again The passing of time And all of its sickening crimes Is making me sad again But don't forget the songs That made you cry And the songs that saved your life Yes, you're older now And you're a cleaver swine But they were the only ones that stood by you The passing of time leaves empty lives Waiting to be filled The passing of time Leaves empty lives Waiting to be filled I'm here with a cause I'm holding a torch In the corner of your room Can you hear me? And when you're dancing and laughing And finally living Hear my voice in your head And think of me kindly Do you Love me like you used to ? @SONG: "Is It Really So Strange?" I left the North I travelled South I found a tiny house I can't help the way I feel Oh yes you can kick me and you can punch me and you break my face but you can't change the way that I feel 'Cause I love you And is it really so strange? Is it really so, really so strange? I say No, you say Yes (but you will change your mind) I left the Sout I travelled North I got confused-I killed a horse I can't help the way I feel Oh yes you can kick me and you can butt me and you can break my spine but you won't change the way that I feel 'cause I love you And is it really so strange ? Is it realy so strange? Is it really so, really so strange? I say No, you say Yes (but you will change your mind) I left the North agin I travelled South again I got confused-I killed a nun I CAN'T HELP THE WAY I FEEL I CAN'T HELP THE WAY I FEEL (I lost my bag in Newport Pagnell) Why is the last mile the hardest mile My throat was dry, with the sun in my eyes And I realised, I realised That I could never I could never, never go back home again @SONG: "Sheila Take A Bow" 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? Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow Boot the grime of this world in in the crotch, dear And don't go home tonight Come out and find the one that you love and who loves you Is it wrong not to always be glad No, it's not wrong-but I must add How can someone so young Sing words so sad? Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow Boot the grime of this world in the crotch,dear And don't go home tonight Come out and find the one that you love and who loves you Take my hand and off we stride You're a girl and I'm a boy Take my hand and off we stride I'm a girl and you're a boy Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow Throw your homework on to the fire Come out and find the one that you love Come out and find the one that you love @SONG: "Sweet and Tender Hooligan" he was a sweet and tender hooligan and he swore that he'd never, never do it again and of course he won't (not until the next time) poor old man he had an "accident" with a three bar fire but that's OK because he wasn't very happy anyway poor woman strangled in her very own bed as she read but that's OK because she was old and she would have died anyway DON"T BLAME this sweet and tender hooligan because he'll never, never do it again (at least not until the next time) So jury you've heard every world but before you decide would you look into those "Mother-me" eyes I love life for you my love, you my love you my love, you my love So jury you've heard ever word but before you decide would you look into those "Mother-me" eyes I love you for you my love, you my love I love you just for you my love, you my love don't blame the sweet and tender hooligan who claims that "In the midst of life we are in debt ETC" ETC! ETC! ETC! ETC! IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEBT ETC! @SONG: "Golden Lights" Golden lights displaying your name golden lights it's a terrible shame but oh my darling WHY DID YOU CHANGE? Boy in a million, idol, a big star I didn't tell you how great you were I didn't grovel or scream Or rip your brand new jacket at the seams You made a record, they liked your singing All of a sudden the phone stop ringing I never thought that you would let The glory make you forget Golden lights displaying your name golden lights it's a terrible shame but oh my darling WHY DID YOU CHANGE? Top ten idol, king of your age but who do you turn to when you're backstage? Don't you remember you once knew a girl Who loved you more than the world Is life always like this, brother Good for some but bad for the other I must put you behind me tonight 'Cause you belong to the lights Golden lights displaying your name golden lights it's a terrible shame but oh my darling WHY DID YOU CHANGE? @SONG: "A Rush and A Push and the Land Is Ours" HELLO I am the ghost of Troubled Joe hung by his pretty white neck some eighteen months ago I travelled to a mystical time zone but I missed my bed so I soon came home they said: "there's too much caffeine in your bloodstream and a lack of real spice in your life" I said: "leave me alone because I'm alright, dad just surprised to still be on my own...." Ooh, but don't mention love I'd hate the real strain of the pain again a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours it has been before so it shall be again and people who are uglier than you and I they take what they need, and leave Ooh, but don't mention love I'd hate the pain and the strain all over again a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours it has been before so why can't it be now? and people who are weaker than you and I they take what they want from life Ooh, but don't mention love no - just don't mention love! a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours your youth may be gone but you're still a young man so phone me, phone me, phone me so phone me, phone me, phone me Ooh, I think I'm in love Ooh, I think I'm in love Ooh, I think I'm in love Urrgh, I think I'm in lerv @SONG: "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" The lanes were silent with nothing or no one around for miles I doused our friendly venture with a hard-faced three-word gesture I started something I forced you into a zone and you were clearly never meant to go hair brushed and parted typical me, typical me typical me I started something ...and now I'm not too sure I grabbed you by the guilded beams that's what Tradition means and I doused another venture with a gesture that was...absolutely vile I started something forced you to a zone and you were clearly never meant to go hair brushed and parted typical me, typical me typical me I started something ...and now I'm not too sure I grabbed you by the guilded beams that's what Tradition means and now eighteen months' hard-labour seems...fair enough I started something forced you to a zone and you were clearly never meant to go hair brushed and parted typical me, typical me typical me I started something and now I'm not too sure @SONG: "Death of a Disco Dancer" The death of a disco dancer well, it happens a lot 'round here and if you think Peace is a common goal well, that goes to show just how little you know The death of a disco dancer well, I'd rather not get involved I never talk to my neighbour I'd just rather not get involved Love, peace and harmony? Love, peace and harmony? Oh, very nice very nice very nice very nice ...but maybe in the next world. @SONG: "Girlfriend in a Coma" Girlfriend in a coma, I know I know - it's serious Girlfriend in a coma, I know I know - it's really serious there wree times when I could have 'murdered' her (but, you know, I would hate anything to happen to her) NO, I DON'T WANT TO SEE HER Do you really think she'll pull through? Do you really think she'll pull through? Girlfriend in a coma, I know I know, it's serious there were time when I could have 'strangeled' her (but, you know, I would hate anything to happen to her) WOULD YOU PLEASE LET ME SEE HER! Do you really think she'll pull through? Do you really think she'll pull through? Let me wisper my last goodbyes I know - IT'S SERIOUS @SONG: "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" Stop me, stop me stop me if you think that you've heard this one before stop me, stop me stop me if you think that you've heard this one before nothing's changed I still love you, oh I still love you ...only slightly less than I used to I was delayed, I was way-laid 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 I'd lied to her? who said I'd lied because I never who said I'd lied because I never I was detained, I was restrained he broke my spleen he broke my knees (and then he really laid into me) Friday night in Out-patients who said I'd lied to her? who said I'd lied - because I never who said I'd lied - because I never Oh, so I drank one or was it four and when I fell on the floor ...I drank more stop me, stop me stop me if you think that you've heard this one before nothing's changed I still love you I still love you but only slightly less than I used to @SONG: "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me no hope - but no harm just another false alarm Las night I felt real arms around me no hope - no harm just another false alarm so, tell me how long before the last one? and tell me how long before the right one? this story is old - I KNOW but it goes on this story is old - I KNOW but it goes on @SONG: "Unhappy Birthday" I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad (but I won't cry) Loved and lost and some may say when usually its Nothing surely you're happy it should be this way? I say "No, I'm gonna kill my dog" and: "May the lines sag heavy and deep tonight XXX" I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad (But I won't cry) Loved and lost some people say when usually its Nothing surely you're happy it should be this way? I said "No" and then I shot myself so, drink, drink, drink and be ill tonight from the one you left behind from the one you left behind from the one you left behind from the one you left behind @SONG: "Paint A Vulgar Picture" At the record company meeting On their hands - a dead star and ooh, the plans that they weave and ooh, the sikening greed At the record company meeting on their hands - a dead star the sycophantic slags all say: "I knew him first, and I knew him well" Re-issue! Re-package! Re-package! Re-evaluate the songs double-pack with a photograph Extra Track (and a tacky badge) A-list, playlist "Please them, please them!" "Please them! Please them!" (sadly, THIS was your life) but you could have said no if you'd wanted to you could have said no if you'd wanted to BPI, MTV, BBC "Please them! Please them!" (sadly this was your life) but you could have said no if you'd wanted to you could have walked away ...couldn't you? I touched you at the soundcheck you had no real way of knowing in my heart I bgged "please, take me with you... I don't care where you're going" But to you I was faceless I was fawning, I was boring just a child from those ugly new houses who could never begin to know who could never really know Best of? Most of? Satiate the need slip them into different sleeves! Buy both, and be decieved climber - new entry, re-entry World tour! ("media whore") "Please the Press in Belgium!" (THIS was your life...) and when it fails to recoup? Well, maybe: You just haven't earned it yet, baby I walked a pace behind you at the soundcheck you're just the same as I am what makes most people feel happy leads us headlong into harm so, in my bedroom in those 'ugly new houses' I dance my legs down to the knees but me and my 'true love' we will never meet again... At the record company meeting on their hands - at last! - a dead star! but they cannot taint you in my eyes no, they cannout touch you now No, they cannot hurt you my darling they cannot touch you now but me and my 'true love' will never meet again @SONG: "Death At One's Elbow" Ooh Glenn don't come to the house tonight Ooh, Glenn don't come to the house tonight because there's somebody here who really really loves you stay home be bored (it's crap, I KNOW) Ooh, Glenn don't come to the house tonight Ooh, Glen don't come to the house tonight because there's somebody here who'll take a hatchet to your ear how the frustration renders me hateful, Glenn! don't come to the house tonight don't come to the house tonight because you'll slip on the trail of my bespattered remains and so, that's why GOODBYE MY LOVE, GOODBYE MY LOVE GOODBYE MY LOVE, GOODBYE MY LOVE GOODBYE MY LOVE, GOODBYE MY LOVE Belch @SONG: "I Won't Share You" I won't share you I won't share you with the drive and ambition and the zeal I feel this is my time as the note I wrote was read, she said has the Perrier gone straight to my head or is life plainly sick and cruel, instead? "YES!" No-no-no-no-no-no I won't share you I won't share you with the drive and the dreams inside this is my time Life tends to come and go well, that's OK just as long as you know Life tends to come and go well, that's OK just as long as you know I won't share you I won't share you with the drive and the dreams inside this is my time this is my time @SONG: Morrissey Viva Hate Morrissey Voice Stephen Street Bass Guitar, Guitar Vini Reilly Guitar, Keyboard Andrew Paresi The Drums John Metcalfe Viola Fenella Barton Violin Mark Davies Cello Richard Koster Violin Robert Woollard Cello Rachel Maguire Cello Alsatian Cousin Little Man, What Now? Everyday Is Like Sunday Bengali in Platforms Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together Late Night, Maudlin Street Suedehead Break Up the Family Hairdresser On Fire The Ordinary Boys I Don't Mind If You Forget Me Dial-A-Cliche Margaret On the Guillotine @SONG: Bona Drag Piccadilly Palare Interesting Drug November Spawned A Monster Will Never Marry Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference The Last of the Famous International Playboys Ouija Board, Ouija Board Hairdresser on Fire Everyday Is Like Sunday He Knows I'd Love to See Him Yes, I'm Blind Lucky Lisp Suedehead Disappointed @SONG: Kill Uncle Morrissey Voice Andrew Paresi Drums and Precussion Mark E. Nevin Guitars Bedders Basses Steve Heart Keyboards Seamus Beaghen Keyboards Nawazish Ali Khan Violin Linder Additional Voice Our Frank Asian Rut Sing Your Life Mute Witness King Leer Found Found Found Driving Your Girlfriend Home The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye (I'm) The End of the Family Line There's a Place In Hell For Me and My Friends Tony the Pony @SONG: "Suedehead" Suedehead I Know Very Well How I Got My Name Hairdresser On Fire Oh Well, I'll Never Learn @SONG: "Everyday Is Like Sunday" Everyday Is Like Sunday Sister I'm A Poet Disappointed Will Never Marry @SONG: "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" The Last of the Famous International Playboys Lucky Lisp Michaels Bones @SONG: "Interesting Drug" Interesting Drug (Morrissey/Street) Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference (Morrissey/Street) Sweet and Tender Hooligan (Morrissey/Marr) @SONG: "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" Ouija Board, Ouija Board (Morrissey/Street) Yes, I Am Blind (Morrissey/Rourke) East West (Grahm Gouldman) @SONG: "November Spawned A Monster" November Spawned A Monster (Morrissey/Langer) He Knows I'd Love to See Him (Morrissey/Armstrong) Girl Least Likely To (Morrissey/Rourke) @SONG: "Piccadilly Palare" Piccadilly Palare (Morrissey/Armstrong) At Amber (Morrissey/Street) Get Off The Stage (Morrissey/Rourke) @SONG: "Our Frank" Our Frank (Morrissey/Nevin) Journalists Who Lie (Morrissey/Street) Tony the Pony (Morrissey/Nevin) @SONG: "Sing Your Life" Sing Your Life (Morrissey/Nevin) That's Entertainment (Paul Weller) The Loop (Morrissey/Nevin) @SONG: "Alsatian Cousin" Were you and he Lovers? and would you say so if you were? on a forecourt on a Friday passing my way Were you and he Lovers? and if you were, then say that you were! on a groundsheet under canvas with your tent-flap open wide A note upon his desk: "P.S. Bring Me Home And Have Me!" Leather elbows on a tweed coat - Oh! - Is THAT the best you can do? So came his reply: "...but on the desk is where I want you!" So I ask (even though I know): were you and he Lovers? @SONG: "Little Man, What Now?" An afternoon nostalgia television show you spoke in silhouette (but they couldn't name you) although the panel were very polite to you but I remembered you from Friday nights 1969 ATV - you murdered every line too old to be a child star too young to take leads four seasons passed and they AXED you nervously juvenile (WON'T SMILE!) What became of you? did that swift eclipse torture you? a star at eighteen and then-suddenly gone down to a few lines in the back page of a teenage annual oh but I remembered you I looked up to you @SONG: "Everyday Is Like Sunday" Trudging slowly over wet sand back to the bench where your clothes were stolen this is the coastal town that they forgot to close down Armageddon - come Armageddon! Come Armageddon! Come! Everyday is like Sunday everyday is silent and grey Hide on the promenade scratch out a postcard "how I dearly with I was not here" in the seaside town ...that they forgot to bomb Come! Come! Come - nuclear bomb! Everyday is like Sunday everyday is silent and grey Trudging back over pebbles and sand and a strange dust lands on your hands (and on your face) Everyday is like Sunday "Win Yourself A Cheap Tray" share some greased tea with me everyday is silent and grey @SONG: "Bengali in Platforms" No no no he does not want to depress you oh no no no no no he only wants to impress you Bengali in platform she only wants to embrace your culture and to be your friend forever Bengali, Bengali oh shelve your Western plans and understand that life is hard enough when you belong here A silver-studded rim that glistens and an ankle-star that...blinds me a lemon sole so very high which only reminds me, to tell you so I break the news gently I break the news to you gently "Shelve your plans" Bengali, Bengali its the touchy march of time that blinds you don't blame me don't hate me just because I'm the one to tell you that life is hard enough when you belong here life is hard enough when you belong here shelve your western plans life is hard enough when you belong here @SONG: "Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together" Angel, Angel don't take your life tonight I know they take and that they take in turn and they give you nothing real for yourself in return and when they've used you and they've broken you and wasted all your money and cast your shell aside and when they've bought you and they've sold you and they've billed you for the pleasure and they've made your parents cry I will be here BELIEVE ME I will be here ...believe me Angel, don't take your life some people have got no pride they do not understand the Urgency of life but I love you more than life I love you more than life I love you more than life I love you more than life @SONG: "Late Night, Maudlin Street" The last night on Maudlin Street goodbye house goodbye stairs I was born here I was raised here, and ...I took some stick here love at first sight may sound trite but it's true, you know I could list the details of everything you ever wore or said, or how you stood that day and as we spend the last night on Maudlin Street, I say "goodbye house-forever!" I never stole a happy hour around here Where the world's ugliest boy became what you see here I am - the ugliest man Its the last night on Maudlin Street and truly I do love you oh, truly I do love you When I sleep with that picture of you framed beside my bed oh, it's childish and it's silly but I think it's you in my room by the bed (...yes, I told you it was silly...) and I know I took strange pills but I never meant to hurt you oh truly I love you I came home late one night everyone had gone to bed nobody stays up for you when you have sixteen stitches all around your head the last buss I missed to Maudlin Street so, he drove me home in the Van complaining: "Women only like me for my mind..." don't leave your torch behind power-cuts ahead as we crept through the park but no I cannot steal a pair of jeans off a clothesline for you but you...without clothes oh I could not keep a straight face me - without clothes? well a nation turns its back and gags... I'm packed I am moving house a half-life disappears today every slag waves me on (secretly wishing me gone well, I will be soon oh - I will be soon) There were bad times on Maudlin Street when they took you away in a police car dear Inspector - don't you know? don't you care? don't you know - about Love? Your gran died and your mother died on Maudlin Street in pain and ashamed with never time to say those special things I took the keys from Maudlin Street well, it's only bricks and mortar! and...truly I do love you wherever you are wherever you are @SONG: "Suedehead" Why do you come here why do you hang around I'm so sorry I'm so sorry Why do you come here when you know it makes things hard for me when you know, oh why do you come? Why do you telephone? and why send me silly notes? I'm so sorry I'm so sorry why do you come here when you know it makes thing hard for me when you know, oh why do you come? You had to sneak into my room 'just' to read my diary was it just to see all the things you knew I'd written about you? and...so many illustrations I'm so very sickened oh, I am so sickened NOW @SONG: "Break Up the Family" The strange logic of your clumsiest line stayed emblazoned on my mind break up the family and lets begin to live our lives I went to see all my friends tonight it wasn't Youth, it wasn't even Life born Old, sadly wise resigned (well, we were) to ending our lives I'm so glad to grow older to move away from those awful times I want to see all my friends tonight Yes you found love but you weren't at peace with your life home late, full of Hate despise the ties that bind oh I'm so glad to grow older to move away from those younger years now I'm in love for the first time and I don't feel bad Let me see all my old friends let me put my arm around them because I really do love them now, does that sound mad? Captain of games, solid framed I stood on the touchline hailstones, driven home in his car - no breaks? I don't mind I'm just so glad to grow older to move away from those darker years I'm in love for the first time and I don't feel bad so wish me luck my friends goodbye @SONG: "Hairdresser on Fire" Here is London here is London is it home of the free, or what? can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me I've got faith in you I sense the power in the fingers within an hour the power can totally destroy me or it could same my life here is London 'home of the brash, outrageous and free' you are repressed but you're remarkably dressed is it Real? but you're far to busy busy scissors busy clippers hair dresser on fire all around Sloane Square and you're far too busy to see me "busy,busy" hairdresser on fire was a client over-cautious he made you nervous and when he said "I'm gonna sue you" I really felt for you so can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and supernaturally change me CHANGE ME, CHANGE ME @SONG: "The Ordinary Boys" Ordinary boys, happy knowing nothing happy being no one, but themselves Ordinary girls, supermarket clothes who think it's very clever to be cruel to you for you were so different you stood all alone and you knew that it had to be so avoiding ordinary boys happy going nowhere, just around here in their rattling cars and ordinary girls never seeing further than the cold, small streets that trap them but you were so different you had to say no when those empty fools tried to change you, and claim you for the lair of their ordinary world where they feel so lucky so lucky, so lucky with their lives laid out before them they're so lucky, so lucky so lucky, so lucky @SONG: "I Don't Mind If You Forget Me" I don't mind I don't mind if you forget me having learned my lesson I never left an impression on anyone so now you send me your hardened 'regards' when once you'd send me 'love' sincerely I must tell you your mild 'best wishes' they make me suspicious but I don't mind I don't mind if you forget me having learned my lesson I never left an impression on anyone the pressure to change, to move on was strange and very strong so this is why I tell you I really do understand BYE BYE I don't mind if you forget me no no no no no no no REJECTION IS ONE THING BUT REJECTION FROM A FOOL IS CRUEL REJECTION IS ONE THING BUT REJECTION FROM A FOOL IS CRUEL and I don't mind if you forget me I don't mind if your forget me @SONG: "Dial-A-Cliche" Further into the fog I fall well, I was just following you! when you said: "Do as I do and scrap your fey ways" (dial-a-cliche) "grow up, be a man, and close your mealy-mouth!" (dial-a-cliche) But the person underneath where does he go? does he slide by the wayside? or...does he just die? when you find that you've organized your feelings, for people who didn't like you then and certainly don't like you now yet still you say: "Do as I do and scrap your fey ways" (dial-a-cliche) "grow up, be a man, and close your mealy-mouth!" (dial-a-cliche) "the Safe way is the only way! there's always time to change, son!" yes well I've changed but I'm in pain! dial-a-chiche @SONG: "Margaret On The Guillotine" The kind people have a wonderful dream Margaret on the guillotine because people like you make me feel so tired when will you die? when will you die? when will you die? when will you die? when will you die? because people like you make me feel so old inside please die and kind people do not shelter this dream make it real make the dream real make the dream real make it real @SONG: "Piccadilly Palare" Off the rails I was and off the rails I was happy to stay GET OUT OF MY WAY on the rack I was "easy Meat" but a reasonably good buy a reasonably good buy the Piccadilly palare was just a silly slang between me and the boys in my gang "so bona to vada, OH YOU your lovely eek and your lovely riah" We plied an ancient trade where we threw all life's instructions away exchanging lies and digs (my way) well, in a belted coat oh I secretly knew that I hadn't a clue the Piccadilly palare was just a silly slang between me and the boys in my gang exchanging palare you wouldn't understand good sons like you NEVER DO So why do you smile when you thing about Earls Court? but you cry when you think of all the battles you've fought (and lost)? it may all end tomorrow or, it could go on forever (in which case; I'm doomed) it could go on forever @SONG: "Interesting Drug" There are some bad people on the rise there are some bad people on the rise they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives bad, bad people on the rise Young married couple in debt - ever felt had? young married couple in debt - ever felt had? on a government scheme designed to kill your dream oh mum, oh dad once poor - always poor la la la la interesting drug the one that you took God, it really really helped you I wonder why you're only half-ashamed? "Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH! and look around... ...can you blame us? CAN you blame us? @SONG: "November Spawned A Monster" Sleep on and dream of Love because it's the closest you will get to love poor twisted child so ugly, so ugly poor twisted child oh hug me, oh hug me one November spawned a monster in the shape of this child who later cried "But Jesus made me, so Jesus save me from pity, sympathy and people discussing me" a frame of useless limbs what can make GOOD all the BAD that's been done? And if the lights were out could you even bear to kiss her full on the mouth (or anywhere?) poor twisted child so ugly, so ugly poor twisted child oh hug me, oh hug me one November spawned a monster in the shape of this child who must remain a hostage to kindess and the wheels underneath her a hostage to kindess and the wheels underneath her a symbol of where mad, mad lovers must PAUSE and draw the line So sleep and dream of love because it's the closest you will get to love that November is a time which I must put OUT of my mind oh one fine day LET IT BE SOON she won't be rich or beautiful but she'll be walking your streets in the clothes that she went out and chose for herself @SONG: "Will Never Marry" I'm writing this to say in a gentle way Thank You - but no I will live my life as I will undoubtedly die - alone I'm writing this to say in a gentle way Thank you... I will live my life as I... for whether you stay or you stray an inbuilt guilt catches up with you and as it comes around to your place at 5 a.m. it wakes you up and laughs in your face @SONG: "Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference" Such a little thing such a little thing but the difference it made was grave there you go wielding a bicycle chain oh why won't you change cange and be nicer? such a little thing a gentle tone of kindness or written words on paper - can you write? How I love all of the very simple things of life (God's good air) how I love all of the very simple things of life such a little thing a fumbling politeness the difference it saved me wielding a bicycle chain "I WILL NOT CHANGE AND I WILL NOT BE NICE" Most people keep their brains between your legs (don't you find?) Leave me alone - I was only singing leave me alone because I was only singing leave me alone - I was only singing leave me alone you have just proved (again) MOST PEOPLE KEEP THEIR BRAINS BETWEEN THEIR LEGS @SONG: "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" Dear hero imprisoned with all the new crimes that you are perfecting oh I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true and now in my cell (well, I followed you) and here's a list of who I slew Roger Kray - do you know my name? don't say you don't please say you do, I am: the last of the famous international playboys the last of the famous international playboys and now in my cell (well, I loved you) every man with a job to do Ronnie Kray - do you know my face? don't say you don't please say you do, I am: the last of the famous international playboys the last of the famous international playboys In our lifetime those who kill the newsworld hands them stardom and these are the ways on which I was raised these are the ways on which I was raised but I never wanted to kill I'M NOT NATURALLY EVIL such things I do just to make myself more attractive to you HAVE I FAILED? @SONG: "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" Ouija board would you work for me? I have got to say Hello to an old friend Ouija board, ouija board would you work for me? I have got to get through to a good friend She has now gone from this Unhappy Planet with all the carnivores and the destructors on it ouija board, ouija board would you help me because I still do feel so horribly lonely would you, ouija board would you, ouija board would you help me because I just can't find my place in this world she has now gone from this Unhappy Planet with all the carnivores and the destructors on it Oh hear my voice ("hear my voice") oh hear my voice ("hear my voice") The table is rumbling... the table is rumbling the glass is moving "No, I was NOT pushing that time" it spells S.T.E.V.E.N. the table is rumbling the glass is moving "no, I was NOT pushing that time": P.U.S.H.O. double F. @SONG: "He Knows I'd Love To See Him" He Knows (he knows) Or, I think he does because when I lived in the Arse of the world... he knows, he knows he knows I'd love to see him happy (or as close as is allowed) because when I lived in the Arse of the world he knows, he knows he knows I'd love to see him happy (or as close as possible as close as possible as close as is allowed) My name still conjours up deadly deeds and a bad taste in the mouth the police - they actually knew me they said: "You're just another person in the world you're just another fool with radical views you're just another who has maddening views you want to turn it on its head by staying in bed!" I said: "I know I do" @SONG: "Yes, I am Blind" Yes, I am blind no, I can't see the good things just the bad things Yes, I am blind no, I can't see there must be something horribly wrong with me? Love's youg dream I'm the one who shopped you I'm the one who stopped you 'cause in my sorry way I love you Love's young dream aren't you sorry for what you've done? well, you're not the only one and in my sorry way I love you Yes, I am blind but I do see Evil people prosper over the likes of you and me ALWAYS Little lamb on a hill run fast if you can good Christians want to KILL you and your live has not even begun! @SONG: "Lucky Lisp" When your gift unfurls when your Talent becomes apparent I will roar from the stalls I will gurgle from the circle The Saints smile shyly down on you they couldn't get over your nine-leaved clover Lucky lisp was not wasted on you lucky lisp was not wasted on you When your name is with the best will my name be on your guest list? I will roar from the stalls oh the balcony fool was me, you fool Jesus made this all for you, love He couldn't get over your Grandma's omen Lucky lisp was not wasted on you lucky lisp was not wasted on you @SONG: "Disappointed" Our unsleepable friend gets the message on an ill-wind 'all your friends and your foes would rather die than have to touch you' TO SAY THE LEAST: truly disappointed truly, truly, truly Drank too much said too much and there's nowhere to go - but Down young boy - I wanna help you SEE THESE LINES?: truly disappointed truly, truly, truly Don't talk to me now about people who are "nice" 'cause I have spent my WHOLE LIFE in RUINS... because of people who were "nice" This world may lack Style, I know but each bud must blossom and grow Young girl one day we really will be old but the thing is: I love you NOW This is the last song I will ever sing No I've changed my mind again GOODNIGHT AND THANK YOU @SONG: "Our Frank" Our frank and open deep conversations they get me nowhere they bring me down, so give it a rest, won't you? give me a cigarette God give me patience just no more conversation Give us a drink and make it quick or else I'm gonna be sick sick all over your frankly vulgar red pullover now see how the colours blend Our frank and open deep conversations they get me nowhere they bring me down, so give it a rest, won't you? now will you just give over the world may be ending but look, I'm only human Give us a drink and make it quick or else I'm gonna be sick all over your frankly vulgar red pullover now see how the two colours blend Won't somebody stop me from thinking all the time about everything so deeply so bleakly @SONG: "Asian Rut" Day oh so late strangely the sun still shone oh Asian boy what are you on? Day oh so late strangely the sun still shone what drugs are you on? Tooled-up Asian boy has come here to avenge the cruel, cold killing of his very best friend Tooled-up Asian boy has come here to take revenge for the cruel, cold killing of his only friend Peace through the school so quiet in the hall it's a strange sign for one of what's to come Tough and hard and pale oh they may just impale you on railings oh English boys it must be wrong three against one? Brakes slammed, and a gun jammed, and as far as I could tell brave Asian boy dealt a blow and fell I'm just passing through here on my way to somewhere civilised and maybe I'll even arrive maybe I'll even arrive? @SONG: "Sing Your Life" Sing your life any fool can think of words that rhyme many others do why don't you? do you want to? Sing your life just walk right up to the microphone and name all the things that you love all the things that you loathe sing your life all the things that you love all the things that you loathe oh sing your life oh sing your life Others sang your life but now's your chance to shine and have the pleasure of saying what you mean the rare pleasure of meaning what you sing oh, make no mistake, my friend all of this will end so sing it now all the things you love all the things you loathe oh sing your life all the things that you love all the things that you loathe oh sing your oh sing your Don't leave it all unsaid somewhere in the wasteland of your head and make no mistake, my friend your pointless life will end but before you go can you look at the truth? You have a lovely singing voice a lovely singing voice and all of those who sing on key they stole the notion from you and me @SONG: "Mute Witness" Your poor witness crying so loudly on the floor oh but she's only trying to tell you what it was that she saw she is only trying to tell you what it was that she saw Now see her standing on the table with her small arms flailing and you feel such compassion in your soul for Your poor mute witness still testing the strength of our patience oh but she's only trying to tell you what it was that she saw Now see her pointing to the frisbee with a memory too fuzzy as her silent words describe the fright of last night 4 a.m. Norhtside, Clapham Common who knows what she was doing there? will she sketch the answer later? Well, I'll ask her "now dry your tears, my dear" Now see her mime in time so nicely it would all have been so clear is only she had never volunteered "your taxi is here, my dear" @SONG: "King Leer" Your boyfriend, he went down on one knee well, could it be he's only got one knee? I tried to surprise you with Vodka or, Tizer I can't quite remember but you didn't thank me you didn't even thank me because you never do Your boyfriend, he has the gift of the gab or, could it be the gift of the grab? I tried to surprise you I lay down beside you and...nothing much happened and you didn't phone me you didn't even phone me because it's not your style to dial Your boyfriend, he displays to me more than just a hint of cruelty I tried to surprise you I crept up behind you with a homeless chihuahua you gushed for an hour you handed him back and said "You'll never guess I'm bored now" @SONG: "Found Found Found" found found found found found found someone who's worth it in this murkiness someone who's never seeming scheming found found found found found found someone who's worth it in this murkiness someone who's never seeming scheming Oh, but if I'd never found oh, but if I'd never found oh, but if I'd never found I do believe that the more you give your love and I do believe that the more you offer trust the more you chase the more you cry the more you're bound to lose the more you're bound to lose Oh, but if I'd never found oh, but if I'd never found somebody who wants to be who wants to be with me all the time @SONG: "Driving Your Girlfriend Home" I'm driving your girlfriend home and she's saying how she never chose you "turn left", she says so I turn left and she says "So how did I end up so deeply involved in the very existence I planned on avoiding?" and I can't answer I'm driving your girlfriend home and she's laughing to stop herself crying "drive on", she says so I drive on and she says "So how did I end up attached to this person when his sense of humour gets gradually worser?" and I can't tell her I'm parking outside her home and we're shaking hands goodnight, so politely @SONG: "The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye" Churchillian legs hair barely there the harsh truth of the camera eye Your eyes signal pain because of the strain of smiling the harsh truth of the camera eye telling you all that you never wnated to know showing what you didn't want shown My so friendly lens zooms into "the inner you" and it tells the harsh truth and nothing but Laugh with us all here that's if you can then take the pictures home and scream telling you all that you never wanted to know showing you what you didn't want shown This photographer he must have really had it in for you "Oh, I don't want to be judged anymore I don't wnat to be judged I would sooner be Loved I would sooner be just blindly Loved..." @SONG: "(I'm) The End of the Family Line" With no complications fifteen generations (of mine) all honouring Nature until I arrive (with incredible style) I'm the end fo the line the end of the family line the end of the line No baby pulled screaming out into this seething whirl by chance or whim (or even love?) our family tree hacked into decline and I'm spared the pain of ever saying ("goodbye") I'm the end of the line the end of the family line the end of the line @SONG: "There's a Place In Hell For Me And My Friends" There is a place reserved for me and my friends and when we go we all will go so you see I'm never alone there is a place with a bit more time and a few more gentler words and looking back we do forgive (we had no choice we always did) all that we hope is that when we go our skin and our blood and our bones don't get in your way making you ill the way they did when we lived There is a place a place in hell reserved for me and my friends and if ever I wanted to cry then I will because I can