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The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths - Album Lyrics & Tracks

The Smiths•1986 Released•Indie Rock•United Kingdom
Tracks: 10
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Duration: 37:03
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Label: Rough Trade

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Complete Album Tracklist

1

The Queen Is Dead

06:24
2

Frankly, Mr. Shankly

02:19
3

I Know It’s Over

05:49
4

Never Had No One Ever

03:37
5

Cemetry Gates

02:41
6

Bigmouth Strikes Again

03:14
7

The Boy With the Thorn in His Side

03:17
8

Vicar in a Tutu

02:22
9

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

04:03
10

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

03:14
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The Queen Is Dead Complete Lyrics

Cemetry Gates Lyrics

[Chorus]
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine
 
[Verse 1]
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people, all those lives
Where are they now?
With-a loves and hates and passions just like mine
They were born, and then they lived
And then they died
Seems so unfair, I want to cry
 
[Verse 2]
You say, "'Ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn"
And you claim these words as your own
But I've read well and I've heard them said
A hundred times, maybe less, maybe more
 
[Verse 3]
If you must write prose and poems
The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarise or take on loan
'Cause there's always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs when you fall
Who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall
 
 
[Verse 4]
You say, "'Ere long done do does did"
Words which could only be your own
And then produce the text from whence was ripped
Some dizzy whore, 1804
 
[Chorus]
A dreaded sunny day, so let's go where we're happy
And I meet you at the cemetery gates
Oh, Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day, so let's go where we're wanted
And I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose
'Cause whale blubber Wilde is on m-mine (Sugar)

Bigmouth Strikes Again Lyrics

[Verse]
Sweetness
Sweetness, I was only joking when I said
I'd like to smash every tooth in your head
Oh-oh, sweetness
Sweetness, I was only joking when I said
By rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed
 
[Pre-Chorus]
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her Roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt (Ah)
 
[Chorus]
Bigmouth, la-da-da-da-da
Bigmouth la-da-da-da
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the human race, oh, oh, oh-oh
Bigmouth la-da-da-da-da
Bigmouth la-da-da-da
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the human race
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt (Oh-oh-oh)
As the flames rose to her Roman nose
And her hearing aid started to melt (Ah)
 
[Chorus]
Bigmouth, la-da-da-da-da
Bigmouth, la-da-da-da
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the human race, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh
Bigmouth, oh-oh-oh, ha-ha
Bigmouth, la-da-da-da
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the human race, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh
Bigmouth, oh-oh-oh, ha-ha
Bigmouth, la-da-da-da
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the human race, oh, no, no, no, no, no
Bigmouth, la-da-da-da-da
Bigmouth, la-da-da-da
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
With the human race, oh, oh, no, no, no