…love is just a…
Came across this: Morrisey’s 10 Best Lyrics on Twitter for #worldpoetryday. Just ten? Really. So I’m just going to type out the lyrics to Miserable Lie from the album sleeve here. Of course, I suggest listening to it as well, if you want to see why this song is great. Remember taking walks in your crappy town, dragging your feet, remember when people’s “rooms” were somewhere safe? All that’s gone but this still happens.
Miserable Lie, The Smiths, 1984 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 need 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 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 the Whalley Range into the depth 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 so take me when you go.
J. Lakis 
March 22nd, 2016 at 9:32 pm
Thank you for the insight 🙂
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March 22nd, 2016 at 9:33 pm
Into what? The Smiths?
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March 23rd, 2016 at 3:55 pm
Into life! Listen to The Smiths and be enlightened. You have done Mr. Weaver an immeasurable service.
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March 23rd, 2016 at 4:07 pm
Dahahaha! That’s me! The pied piper of positivist pessimism! (I don’t know what that means. I just trapped myself in an alliterative corner.)
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March 23rd, 2016 at 4:12 pm
Indeed. Then he can follow-up with insights into living from Bauhaus, The Cure, Joy Division, Cold Cave. There’s no end to the learnin’!
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March 23rd, 2016 at 4:40 pm
Oh my gawd! I had forgotten Bauhaus! I’m in your debt sir.
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March 23rd, 2016 at 4:46 pm
Hot damn! Your day is going to rule now. Don’t forget about all their offshoots, too: Tones on Tail, Love & Rockets, and Peter Murphy’s solo shizz.
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March 23rd, 2016 at 4:56 pm
So much music flooding back…is this a dream? Are these my hands? Thanks!
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