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I Know Very Well How I Got My Name Lyrics
A child with a curious face
A man with sullen ways
Oh, I know very well how I got my name
You think you were my first love
You think you were my first love, but you're wrong
You were the only one
Who's come and gone
When the teen is old
Who dyed his hair gold
Oh, I know very well, I don't need to be told
You think you were my first love
You think you were my first love, but you're wrong
You were the only one
Who's come and gone
You were the only one
Who's come and gone
A man with sullen ways
Oh, I know very well how I got my name
You think you were my first love, but you're wrong
You were the only one
Who's come and gone
Who dyed his hair gold
Oh, I know very well, I don't need to be told
You think you were my first love, but you're wrong
You were the only one
Who's come and gone
Who's come and gone
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In a brave but outrageously premature display of solidarity [with David Bowie] Morrissey arrived in school (St Marys) one morning with his hair streaked blond. According to Morrissey, he was summarily sent home, though his clas-mates have no recollection of this. However, Chris Power does recall Morrissey's amusing attempt to disguise the controversial gold streak by re-dyeing the offending locks black. The hair-colouring episode (which is recalled in this song) may have had a secondary cause, as Mike Ellis speculates: The day of the blond flash was also the first time I ever saw him wear spectacles. He was quite self-conscious about glasses then."
I thought it was "A child in a curious phase."
The correct lyric is "When thirteen years old" and not "When the teen is old" as is listed here.
i love colin meloys cover of this
Yeah, I thought this song was crap until I heard him sing it. He sounds so much better.
Yeah, I thought this song was crap until I heard him sing it. He sounds so much better.