In Concert-354
The Smiths
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William It Was Really Nothing
02 : 05
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Nowhere Fast
02 : 27
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Hand in Glove
02 : 45
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How Soon Is Now
06 : 00
5
Stretch Out and Wait
02 : 45
6
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
03 : 42
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Shakespeare’s Sister
02 : 00
8
The Headmaster Ritual
04 : 20
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Still Ill
03 : 25
10
Meat Is Murder
05 : 20
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Miserable Lie
05 : 00
12
Barbarism Begins at Home
07 : 12
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You’ve Got Everything Now
04 : 02
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Track Lyrics
William It Was Really Nothing Lyrics
[Verse 1]
The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, no, and everybody's got to live their life
And God knows I've got to live mine
God knows I've got to live mine
[Chorus]
William, William, it was really nothing
William, William, it was really nothing
It was your life
[Verse 2]
How can you stay with a fat girl who'll say:
"Oh! Would you like to marry me?
"And if you like you can buy the ring"
She doesn't care about anything
Would you like to marry me?
And if you like you can buy the ring
I don't dream about anyone - except myself!
[Chorus]
Oh, William, William, it was really nothing
William, William, oh-oh-oh-oh-woah
Woah-oh, oh-oh
Hand in Glove Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds
No, it's not like any other love
This one is different because it's us
Hand in glove
We can go wherever we please
And everything depends upon
How near you stand to me
[Chorus]
And if the people stare
Then the people stare
Oh, I really don't know
And I really don't care
(Kiss my shades)
(Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
(Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
[Verse 2]
Hand in glove
The Good People laugh
Yes, we may be hidden by rags
But we've something they'll never have
Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds
Yes, we may be hidden by rags
But we've something they'll never have
[Chorus]
And if the people stare
Then the people stare
Oh, I really don't know
And I really don't care
(Kiss my shades)
(Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
(Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
[Verse 3]
So, hand in glove I stake my claim
I'll fight to the last breath (Oh)
If they dare touch a hair on your head
I'll fight to the last breath (Oh)
For the good life is out there somewhere
So stay on my arm, you little charmer
But I know my luck too well
Yes, I know my luck too well
And I'll probably never see you again
I'll probably never see you again
I'll probably never see you again
[Outro]
(Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
(Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
(Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
How Soon Is Now Lyrics
[Intro]
[Verse]
I am the son and the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
[Chorus]
You shut your mouth, how can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
[Verse]
I am the son and the heir
Of a shyness that was criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
[Chorus]
You shut your mouth, how can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
When you say, "It's gonna happen now"
Well, when exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
You shut your mouth, how can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
Stretch Out and Wait Lyrics
[Verse]
On the high-rise estate
What's at the back of your mind?
On a three day debate, on a high-rise estate
But what's at the back of your mind?
Two icy-cold hands conducting the way
It's the Eskimo blood in my veins
Amid concrete and clay and general decay
Nature must still find a way
So, ignore all the codes of the day
Let your juvenile impulses sway
This way and that way, and this way and that way
God, how sex implores you
To let yourself lose yourself
[Chorus]
Stretch out and wait, stretch out and wait
Let your puny body lie down, lie down
As we lie, you say
As we lie, you say
Stretch out and
Stretch out and wait, stretch out and wait
Let your puny body lie down, lie down
[Bridge]
As we lie, you say
"Will the world end in the night time?"
I really don't know
"Or will the world end in the day time?"
I really don't know
"And is there any point ever having children?"
Oh, I don't know
All I do know is we're here and it's now
[Chorus]
So, stretch out and wait, stretch out and wait
There is no debate, no debate, no debate
How can you consciously contemplate
When there's no debate, no debate?
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
[Outro]
Wait
Wait
Wait
Wait
The Headmaster Ritual Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools
Spineless swines, cemented minds
[Pre-Chorus]
Sir leads the troops, jealous of youth
Same old suit since 1962
He does the military two-step
Down the nape of my neck
[Chorus]
I want to go home
I don't want to stay
Give up education
As a bad mistake
[Verse 2]
Mid-week on the playing fields
Sir thwacks you on the knees
Knees you in the groin, elbow in the face
Bruises bigger than dinner plates
[Chorus]
I want to go home
I don't want to stay
[Post-Chorus]
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la, oh, la-la-la-la (Oh, oh! Oh, oh!)
Ooh, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
Oh, la-la-la-la-la, ooh, la-la-la-la-la (Oh, oh! Oh, oh!)
Oh, la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
[Verse 3]
Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools
Spineless bastards, all
[Pre-Chorus]
Sir leads the troops, jealous of youth
Same old jokes since 1902
He does the military two-step
Down the nape of my neck
[Chorus]
I want to go home
I don't want to stay
Give up life
As a bad mistake
[Verse 4]
Please excuse me from gym
I've got this terrible cold coming on
He grabs and devours, he kicks me in the showers
Kicks me in the showers and he grabs and devours
[Chorus]
I want to go home
I don't want to stay
[Outro]
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
Oh, la-la-la-la-la, oh, la-la-la-la-la (Oh, oh!)
Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
Oh, la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay (Ohh)
Oh, la-la-la-la-la, oh, la-la-la-la-la (Ohh) (Oh, oh!)
La-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
Oh, la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay (Ohh)
Oh, la-la-la-la, ooh, la-la-la-la-la (Ohh)
Oh, la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-ee-yay
Ooh, la-la-la-la-ee-yay
La-la-la-la-la-la-la, ooh, la-la-la-la-la
Ooh, la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
Oh, la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
La-la-la-la, ooh, la-la-la-la-la
Oh, la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-ee-yay
Oh, la-ee-yay
La-la-la, la-la-la-la-la-la
Oh, la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-ee-yay
Oh, la-la-la-la-ee-yay
La-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
Oh
You’ve Got Everything Now Lyrics
[Verse 1]
As merry as the days were long
I was right and you were wrong
Back at the old grey school
I would win and you would lose
[Pre-Chorus]
But you've got everything now
You've got everything now
And what a terrible mess I've made of my life
Oh, what a mess I've made of my life
[Chorus]
No, I've never had a job
Because I've never wanted one
I've seen you smile
But I've never really heard you laugh
So who is rich and who is poor?
I cannot say, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
You are your mother's only son
And you're a desperate one
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
But I don't want a lover
I just want to be seen, oh-oh-oh-oh
In the back of your car
[Verse 2]
A friendship sadly lost
Well this is true, and yet, it's false, oh
But did I ever tell you, by the way?
I never did like your face, oh
[Pre-Chorus]
But you've got everything now
You've got everything now
And what a terrible mess I've made of my life
Oh, what a mess I've made of my life
[Chorus]
No, I've never had a job
Because I'm too shy
I've seen you smile
But I've never really heard you laugh
So who is rich and who is poor?
I cannot say, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
You are your mother's only son
And you're a desperate one
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
But I don't want a lover
I just want to be tied, oh-oh-oh-oh
To the back of your car, to the back of your car
To the back of your car, to the back of your car
To the back of your car, to the back of your car
Oh-oh