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[[Category:The Smiths Lyrics]] [[File:Ask.jpg | thumb | right | Cover art]] [[File:Askaustralia12.jpg | thumb | right | Australia 12" cover art]] [[File:Askgermany12.jpg | thumb | right | Germany 12" cover art]] {{Discobox | Name = Ask | Total Length = 2:29 (Single version)<br>3:15 (Album version)<br>3:26 (Demo version) | Recorded = June 1986 | Writer = [[Writer::Morrissey]] / [[Writer::Johnny Marr]] | Producer = [[Producer::John Porter]] <br>then mixed by [[Steve Lillywhite]] | Mastered = | Art = Cover star: [[Mention::Yootha Joyce]] in [[Mention::Catch Us If You Can]] (1965) by John Boorman / Germany 12" Vinyl: [[Mention::Colin Campbell]] in "[[Mention::The Leather Boys]]" (1964)<br>Layout: [[Mention::Caryn Gough]] | Vinyl Etching = A: "ARE YOU LOATHSOME TONIGHT?" <br>B: "TOMB IT MAY CONCERN" | Publisher = [[Rough Trade Records]] (UK)<br>[[Sire Records]] (US) | Format = 7" Vinyl, 12" Vinyl, CD | Release = 20 October 1986 | Chart = UK #14<br>UK #62 (reissue) | Type = Single | ArtistType = The Smiths | Previous = Panic | PreviousLink = Panic (single) | Next = Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others | NextLink = Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (single) | Reissue = true | ReissueDescription = WEA reissue | ReissuePrevious = There Is A Light That Never Goes Out | ReissuePreviousLink = There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (single) | ReissueNext = Sweet And Tender Hooligan | ReissueNextLink = Sweet And Tender Hooligan (single) }} ==Information== * [[Backing Vocals::Kirsty MacColl]] provides backing vocals on this song. * An alternate take of this song appears on [[The Smiths β Unreleased Demos & Instrumentals (LP bootleg)|The Smiths β Unreleased Demos & Instrumentals]] bootleg LP. * The Australian cover is a cropped image sourced from a press photograph credited to Jo Novark (actually [[Pat Bellis]]). ==Track list== ===7" Vinyl=== UK - [Rough Trade RT 194] {{tracklist | 01 = Ask | 01link = Ask (single) | 01-duration = 2:59 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Cemetry Gates | 02link = Cemetry Gates | 02-duration = 2:39 (Morrissey/Marr) }} ===12" Vinyl / CD=== UK - [Rough Trade RTT 194 / RTT 194CD] {{tracklist | 01 = Ask | 01link = Ask (single) | 01-duration = 2:59 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Cemetry Gates | 02link = Cemetry Gates | 02-duration = 2:39 (Morrissey/Marr) | 03 = Golden Lights | 03link = Golden Lights | 03-duration = 2:38 (Twinkle) }} ===12" Vinyl=== Australia - [Rough Trade RTANZ 12019] {{tracklist | 01 = Ask | 01link = Ask (single) | 01-duration = 2:59 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Shoplifters Of The World Unite | 02link = Shoplifters Of The World Unite (single) | 02-duration = 2:56 (Morrissey/Marr) | 03 = Cemetry Gates | 03link = Cemetry Gates | 03-duration = 2:39 (Morrissey/Marr) }} == Lyrics == <poem> Shyness is nice And Shyness can stop you From doing all the things in life you'd like to Shyness is nice And Shyness can stop you From doing all the things in life you'd like to So, if there's something you'd like to try If there's something you'd like to try Ask me I won't say "NO" - How could I? - Coyness is nice And Coyness can stop you From saying all the things in life you'd like to So, if there's something you'd like to try If there's something you'd like to try Ask me I won't say "NO" - How could I? - Spending warm, Summer days indoors Writing frightening verse To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg Ask me, ask me, ask me Ask me, ask me, ask me Because if it's not Love Then it's the Bomb The bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb The bomb that will bring us together Nature is a language - Can't you read? - Nature is a language - Can't you read? - So, ask me, ask me, ask me Ask me, ask me, ask me Because if it's not Love Then it's the Bomb The bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb The bomb that will bring us together If it's not Love Then it's the Bomb Then it's the Bomb That will bring us together So, ask me, ask me, ask me Ask me, ask me, ask me </poem> ==Music Video== <youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoo9Vu1a9bU</youtube> ===Credits=== * Directed by [[Director::Derek Jarman]] {{CommonSongSections | Artist = The Smiths | Song = {{#replace:{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}| (single)|}}| (song)|}}}}
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