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You Feel So Lonely You Could Die Lyrics
No one ever saw you
Moving through the dark
Leaving slips of paper
Somewhere in the park
Hidden from your friends,
Stealing all they knew
Love is thrown in airless rooms
Thin vile rewards for you
And I'm gonna tell
Yes, I've gotta tell
Gotta tell the things you've said
When you're talking in the dark
And I'm gonna tell the things you've done
When you're walking through the park
Some night on a thrill-less street
Will come a silent gun
You've got a dangerous part
You stole their trust, their moon, their sun
There'll come such ? needle
On a crowded train
I bet you'll feel so lonely you could die
Buildings crammed with people,
Landscape filled with wrath
Grey concrete city,
Rain has wet the street
I want to see you clearly
Before you close the door
A room of bloody history,
You made sure of that
I can see you as a corpse
Hanging from a beam
I can read you like a book
I can feel you falling
I hear you moaning in your room
Oh, see if I care
Oh please, please make it soon
Walls have got you cornered
You've got the blues my friend
And people don't like you
But you will leave without a sound, without an end
Oh billions shall own you
Death alone shall love you
I bet you'll feel so lovely you could die
(I feel so lonely) you could die,
You feel so lonely, you could die.
Moving through the dark
Leaving slips of paper
Somewhere in the park
Hidden from your friends,
Stealing all they knew
Love is thrown in airless rooms
Thin vile rewards for you
Yes, I've gotta tell
Gotta tell the things you've said
When you're talking in the dark
And I'm gonna tell the things you've done
When you're walking through the park
Will come a silent gun
You've got a dangerous part
You stole their trust, their moon, their sun
There'll come such ? needle
On a crowded train
I bet you'll feel so lonely you could die
Landscape filled with wrath
Grey concrete city,
Rain has wet the street
I want to see you clearly
Before you close the door
A room of bloody history,
You made sure of that
Hanging from a beam
I can read you like a book
I can feel you falling
I hear you moaning in your room
Oh, see if I care
Oh please, please make it soon
You've got the blues my friend
And people don't like you
But you will leave without a sound, without an end
Death alone shall love you
I bet you'll feel so lovely you could die
(I feel so lonely) you could die,
You feel so lonely, you could die.
Song Info
Submitted by
songmeanings On Feb 05, 2013
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There's a funny thing about the chords of this song. When played on guitar with a capo on the 1rst fret, the chords sequence on the end of the phrase "you feel so lonely you could die" is D E A D.......
The image of leaving slips of paper in the park is reminiscent of the early scenes in "Smiley's People," and this, plus the theme of betrayal, suggests that this is about espionage.
And... 'The Lives of Others' about spying in the former DDR (in Berlin)... and by extension, as seen in a lot of the songs on The Next Day, the fall of oppressive regimes, explicitly Communist here, but why not also, more topically, the USA after the Snowden and Assange and NSA leaks / scandals?
To me this seems like a very hostile song towards Morrissey and everything he's done, artistically and as a person. Morrissey's spikey insults towards his former friend, Bowie. His presumably emotional lyrics that contain dark accusations, scorn, arrogance, subtle hostile references to family, friends and fellow artists: all left behind as 'slips of paper' throughout his songs.
Morrissey made enemies everywhere, hence the loneliness, which is a big theme in his work. David seems to me as if he's through with him. He's ready to say farewell, and wishes Morrissey a fitting lonely death. The silent gun being this song, followed by suicide out of misery, loneliness and being forgotten.
The song contains the outro of Rock 'n Roll Suicide. Morrissey used that outro in I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday, which Bowie covered. Quite a 'slip of paper left in the park' aswell. He uses Morrissey's technique (stolen from Oscar Wilde) to threaten and accuse him like he did throughout his whole carreer. The Soviet spy setting is mainly the cover up story. A metaphor for how artists hide secret messages for eachother like spies.
To me, it sounds like the end of Five Years. Which was a pretty dark song as well. End of the world stuff.
To me, it sounds like the end of Five Years. Which was a pretty dark song as well. End of the world stuff.
Sucks to be Angie.
Reminds me of Morrisey's lyrics
This song finishes exactly as Five Years.... lyrics has to do with something from that era maybe?