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| Name = Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning
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| Album = [[Vauxhall And I]]
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| Length = 3:42
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| Writer = [[Writer::Morrissey]] / [[Writer::Boz Boorer]]
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| Producer = [[Producer::Steve Lillywhite]]  
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| Recorded = Summer 1993
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==Information==
The song features a sample of the line "what's your name?" by actress Kay Walsh from the 1942 film "[[In Which We Serve]]." [https://www.morrissey-solo.com/threads/lifeguard-sleeping-girl-drowning-end-reference.150550/ Posted by ALLIE WALLS in the forum]: "it comes in around 42.11 and currently on BBC I Player" (also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huArZZmIqCU&t=41m55s YouTube]).


==Information==
The title is asserted by [[Simon Goddard]] in [[Mozipedia]] to be derived from a poem by [[Stevie Smith]] entitled: "Not Waving, But Drowning" (1957). Excerpt:
<blockquote>
‘Inspired by real facts’, or so Morrissey teased, this sinister if blackly comic vignette was strongly reminiscent of Stevie Smith’s famous 1957 poem ‘Not Waving, But Drowning’. Whereas in Smith’s tale a man drowns out at sea watched by oblivious bystanders who mistake his flailing arms for playful ‘larking’, in Morrissey’s version an exhausted lifeguard calmly and maliciously allows a girl in similar peril to drown so he can sleep in peace.
</blockquote>


== Lyrics ==
== Lyrics ==


{{lyrics
<poem>
|
Always looking for attention
}}
Always needs to be mentioned
Who does she think she should be?
 
The shrill cry through darkening air
Doesn't she know he's
Had such a busy day?
 
Tell her...shh
Somebody tell her...shh
 
No way, no way
There's no movement, no
Hooray
 
It was only a test
But she swam too far against the tide
She deserves all she gets
 
The sky became mad with stars
As an out-stretched arm slowly disappears
 
Hooray
Oh, hooray
No, there's no movement, no
Hooray, hooray
 
Please don't worry there'll be no fuss
She was...nobody's nothing
 
When he awoke the sea was calm
And another day passes like a dream


==Personnel==
There's no, no way
</poem>


* [[Morrissey]] - Vocals <br>
* [[Alain Whyte]] - Guitars, backing vocals<br>
* [[Boz Boorer]] - Guitars<br>
* [[Jonny Bridgwood]] - Bass guitar<br>
* [[Woodie Taylor]] - Drums<br>
* Producer - [[Steve Lillywhite]]<br>
* Engineer - Chris Dickie<br>
* Assistant Engineer - Danton Supple<br>
* Photography - Dean Freeman (cover)<br>
* Photography - [[Jake Walters]] (Black & White photographs)<br>
* Art co-ordination - Greg Ross<br>
* Sleeve - Whores In Retirement<br>




==Live History==
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Latest revision as of 16:06, 2 January 2023

Cover art
MORRISSEY song
Name Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning
Album/single Vauxhall And I
Length 3:42
Writer/composer Morrissey / Boz Boorer
Producer Steve Lillywhite
Recorded Summer 1993

Information

The song features a sample of the line "what's your name?" by actress Kay Walsh from the 1942 film "In Which We Serve." Posted by ALLIE WALLS in the forum: "it comes in around 42.11 and currently on BBC I Player" (also YouTube).

The title is asserted by Simon Goddard in Mozipedia to be derived from a poem by Stevie Smith entitled: "Not Waving, But Drowning" (1957). Excerpt:

‘Inspired by real facts’, or so Morrissey teased, this sinister if blackly comic vignette was strongly reminiscent of Stevie Smith’s famous 1957 poem ‘Not Waving, But Drowning’. Whereas in Smith’s tale a man drowns out at sea watched by oblivious bystanders who mistake his flailing arms for playful ‘larking’, in Morrissey’s version an exhausted lifeguard calmly and maliciously allows a girl in similar peril to drown so he can sleep in peace.

Lyrics

Always looking for attention
Always needs to be mentioned
Who does she think she should be?

The shrill cry through darkening air
Doesn't she know he's
Had such a busy day?

Tell her...shh
Somebody tell her...shh

No way, no way
There's no movement, no
Hooray

It was only a test
But she swam too far against the tide
She deserves all she gets

The sky became mad with stars
As an out-stretched arm slowly disappears

Hooray
Oh, hooray
No, there's no movement, no
Hooray, hooray

Please don't worry there'll be no fuss
She was...nobody's nothing

When he awoke the sea was calm
And another day passes like a dream

There's no, no way


Live History

Play count (Morrissey concert): 0


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