Meat Is Murder
The Smiths
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1
The Headmaster Ritual
04 : 52
2
Rusholme Ruffians
04 : 19
3
I Want the One I Can’t Have
03 : 13
4
What She Said
02 : 40
5
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
04 : 57
6
How Soon Is Now?
06 : 43
7
Nowhere Fast
02 : 35
8
Well I Wonder
04 : 00
9
Barbarism Begins at Home
06 : 55
10
Meat Is Murder
06 : 02
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Track Lyrics
Rusholme Ruffians Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The last night of 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
[Chorus]
And though I walk home alone
I might walk home alone
But my faith in love is still devout
[Verse 2]
The last night of 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
From a seat on a whirling waltzer
Her skirt ascends for a watching eye
It's a hideous trait on her mother's side
[Chorus]
And though I walk home alone
I might walk home alone
But my faith in love is still devout
[Verse 3]
Then someone falls in love
And someone's beaten up
Someone's beaten up
And the senses being dulled are mine
And someone falls in love
And someone's beaten up
And the senses being dulled are mine
[Chorus]
And though I walk home alone
I might walk home alone
But my faith in love is still devout
[Verse 4]
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?"
(La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la-la)
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?"
(La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la, la)
[Bridge]
So 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
(La-la-la, la-la-la)
[Chorus]
And though I walk home alone
I just might walk home alone
But my faith in love is still devout
I might walk home alone
But my faith in love is still devout
I might walk home alone
But my faith in love is still devout
(La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la)
(La-la-la-la-la-la-la)
[Outro]
*door closing*
Meat Is Murder Lyrics
[Intro]
*sawing machines and cow groans*
[Verse 1]
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 no reason is murder
And the flesh you so fancifully fry
Is not succulent, tasty or kind
It's death for no reason
And death for no reason is murder
And the calf that you carve with a smile
It is murder
And the turkey you festively slice
It is murder
Do you know how animals die?
[Verse 2]
Kitchen aromas 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 flesh you so fancifully fry
The meat in your mouth
As you savour the flavour of murder
No, no, no, it is murder
No, no, no, it is murder
Oh, and who hears when animals cry?
[Outro]
*sawing machines and cow groans*