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THE SMITHS song
Name	Miserable Lie
Album/single	The Smiths
Length	4:29
Writer/composer	Morrissey / Johnny Marr
Producer	John Porter
Release	February 1984
Recorded	Autumn 1983

Information

"Flower-like life" appears to relate directly to Oscar Wilde's De Profundis

Lyrics

So, goodbye
Please stay with your own kind
And I'll stay with mine
There's something against us
It's not time
It's not time
So, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

I know I need hardly say
How much I love your casual way
Oh, but please put your tongue away
A little higher and we're well away
The dark nights are drawing in
And your humor is as black as them
I look at yours, you laugh at mine
And "love" is just a miserable lie
You have destroyed my flower-like life
Not once - twice
You have corrupt my innocent mind
Not once - twice
I know the wind-swept mystical air
It means : I'd like to see your underwear
I recognize that mystical air
It means : I'd like to seize your underwear
What do we get for our trouble and pain ?
Just a rented room in Whalley Range
What do we get for our trouble and pain ?
...Whalley Range !
Into the depths of the criminal world
I followed her ...

I need advice, I need advice
I need advice, I need advice
Nobody ever looks at me twice
Nobody ever looks at me twice
I'm just a country-mile behind
The world
I'm just a country-mile behind
The whole world
Oh oh, oh ...

I'm just a country-mile behind
The world
I'm just a country-mile behind
The whole world

Oh oh, oh ...
Take me when you go
Oh oh, oh...
Take me when you go
Oh oh, oh ...
I need advice, I need advice

Live History

Play count (The Smiths concert): 106

The Smiths live history:

... further results

Play count (Morrissey concert): 0

Appears On

Related Forum Threads

The Smiths A-Z: "Miserable Lie" - Morrissey-solo (Apr 30, 2022)

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+So, goodbye
+Please stay with your own kind
+And I'll stay with mine
+There's something against us
+It's not time
+It's not time
+So, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
+I know I need hardly say
+How much I love your casual way
+Oh, but please put your tongue away
+A little higher and we're well away
+The dark nights are drawing in
+And your humor is as black as them
+I look at yours, you laugh at mine
+And "love" is just a miserable lie
+You have destroyed my flower-like life
+Not once - twice
+You have corrupt my innocent mind
+Not once - twice
+I know the wind-swept mystical air
+It means : I'd like to see your underwear
+I recognize that mystical air
+It means : I'd like to seize your underwear
+What do we get for our trouble and pain ?
+Just a rented room in Whalley Range
+What do we get for our trouble and pain ?
+...Whalley Range !
+Into the depths of the criminal world
+I followed her ...
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+I need advice, I need advice
+I need advice, I need advice
+Nobody ever looks at me twice
+Nobody ever looks at me twice
+I'm just a country-mile behind
+The world
+I'm just a country-mile behind
+The whole world
+Oh oh, oh ...
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+The world
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+The whole world
+Oh oh, oh ...
+Take me when you go
+Oh oh, oh...
+Take me when you go
+Oh oh, oh ...
+I need advice, I need advice
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