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The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

1986 Released

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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

Track 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)
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