These Things Take Time

THE SMITHS song
Name	These Things Take Time
Album/single	Hatful Of Hollow Louder Than Bombs What Difference Does It Make? (single)
Length	2:33 (Hatful/Jensen version) 2:20 (Single version) 2:44 (Troy Tate version) 3:05 (Crazy Face rehearsal)
Writer/composer	Morrissey/Johnny Marr
Producer	Dale Griffin (Jensen/BBC) John Porter (Single version) Troy Tate (Troy Tate version) No Producer (Crazy Face)
Release	January 1984
Recorded	October 1983

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Lyrics

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wunder-kind You took me behind a dis-used railway line And said: "I know a place where we can go where we are not known" And then you gave me something that I won't forget too soon
But I can't believe that you'd ever care And this is why you will never care But these things take time And I know that I'm the most inept that ever stepped
I'm spellbound but a woman divides And the hills are alive with celibate cries But you know where you came from You know where you're going and you know where you belong You said I was ill and you were not wrong
But I can't believe that you'd ever care And so you never care But these things take time And I know that I'm the most inept that ever stepped
Oh, the alcoholic afternoons When we sat in your room They meant more to me Than any, than any living thing on earth And they had more worth Than any living thing on earth, on earth, on earth, oh
Vivid and in your prime You will leave me behind You will leave me behind

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