Miserable Lie

The Smiths

So, goodbye
Please stay with your own kind
And I'll stay with mine

There's something against us
It's not time
It's not time
So, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

I know I need hardly say
How much I love your casual way
Oh, but please put your tongue away
A little higher and we're well away
The dark nights are drawing in
And your humor 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 - twice
You have corrupt my innocent mind
Not once - twice
I know the wind-swept mystical air
It means : I'd like to see your underwear
I recognize that mystical air
It means : I'd like to seize your underwear
What do we get for our trouble and pain ?
Just a rented room in Whalley Range
What do we get for our trouble and pain ?
...Whalley Range !
Into the depths of the criminal world
I followed her ...

I need advice, I need advice
I need advice, I need advice
Nobody ever looks at me twice
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
Oh oh, oh ...

I'm just a country-mile behind
The world

I'm just a country-mile behind
The whole world
Oh oh, oh ...

Take me when you go
Oh oh, oh...

Take me when you go
Oh oh, oh ...

I need advice, I need advice


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Miserable Lie Lyrics as written by Johnny Marr Steven Morrissey

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    "Morrissey mentioned before that he lost his virginity when he was 13, and that it wasn't very good, so perhaps this is what the song was about..."you have destroyed my flower-like life". " He did say he lost his virginity at the age of 13; however, the line about "Whalley Range" doesn't support the theory that it is about that, since a rented room in Whalley Range is where Morrissey used to cohabit with Linder Sterling (and I think the guitarist from her band, Ludus) for about a year when he was about 19.

    And as for "latent homosexual element" - what if it's a complete renouncement of romantic relationships instead? You know, as they said in Sex and the City, being single and being gay is not exactly the same...LOL

    nightanddayon December 29, 2005   Link

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