In Concert-354
The Smiths
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William It Was Really Nothing
02 : 05
2
Nowhere Fast
02 : 27
3
Hand in Glove
02 : 45
4
How Soon Is Now
06 : 00
5
Stretch Out and Wait
02 : 45
6
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
03 : 42
7
Shakespeare’s Sister
02 : 00
8
The Headmaster Ritual
04 : 20
9
Still Ill
03 : 25
10
Meat Is Murder
05 : 20
11
Miserable Lie
05 : 00
12
Barbarism Begins at Home
07 : 12
13
You’ve Got Everything Now
04 : 02
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Track Lyrics
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