Somehow the lyrics to many Smiths songs are deeply embedded in my skull after all these years. Every once and a while a resonant phrase is overheard on the street that brings it all back.
Some of the lyrics that were imprinted into my post adolescent brain circa 1984-89:
"Oh, anything is hard to find
When you will not open your eyes"
"There is another world
There is a better world
Well, there must be
Well, there must be"
"Sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking
When I said by rights you should be
Bludgeoned in your bed "
"And if the people stare
Then the people stare "
"I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now"
"I dreamt about you last night
And I fell out of bed twice "
"Does the body rule the mind
Or does the mind rule the body ?
I don´t know...."
"I've seen this happen in other people's
Lives And now it's happening in mine "
"I would go out tonight
But I haven't got a stitch to wear"
my teenage angst-ridden self would tell herself: "I wear black on the outside because black is how I feel on the inside."
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