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[[Category:The Smiths Lyrics]] [[File:I-Started-Something.jpg | thumb | right | Cover art]] {{Discobox | Name = I Started Something I Couldn't Finish | Total Length = 3:46 | Recorded = Spring 1987 | Writer = [[Writer::Morrissey]] / [[Writer::Johnny Marr]] | Producer = [[Producer::Stephen Street]]<br>Assisted by [[Producer::Morrissey]] / [[Producer::Johnny Marr]] | Mastered = | Art = Cover star: [[Mention::Avril Angers]] film still from "[[Mention::The Family Way]]" (1966)<br>Layout: [[Mention::Caryn Gough]] | Vinyl Etching = "MURDER AT THE WOOL HALL" (x) STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE<br>YOU ARE BELIEVING, YOU DO NOT WANT TO SLEEP | Publisher = [[Rough Trade Records]] (UK) | Format = 7" Vinyl, 12" Vinyl, Cassette | Release = 2 November 1987 | Chart = UK #23 | Type = Single | ArtistType = The Smiths | Previous = Girlfriend In A Coma | PreviousLink = Girlfriend In A Coma (single) | Next = Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before | NextLink = Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before (single) }} ==Information== ==Track list== ===7" Vinyl=== UK - [Rough Trade RT 198] {{tracklist | 01 = I Started Something I Couldn't Finish | 01link = I Started Something I Couldn't Finish (single) | 01-duration = 3:46 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Pretty Girls Make Graves | 02link = Pretty Girls Make Graves | 02app = (Troy Tate version) | 02-duration = 3:35 (Morrissey/Marr) }} ===12" Vinyl=== UK - [Rough Trade RTT 198] {{tracklist | 01 = I Started Something I Couldn't Finish | 01link = I Started Something I Couldn't Finish (single) | 01-duration = 3:46 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Pretty Girls Make Graves | 02link = Pretty Girls Make Graves | 02app = (Troy Tate version) | 02-duration = 3:35 (Morrissey/Marr) | 03 = Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others | 03link = Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others | 03app = (live) | 03-duration = 5:03 (Morrissey/Marr) }} ===Cassette=== UK - [Rough Trade RTT 198C] {{tracklist | 01 = I Started Something I Couldn't Finish | 01link = I Started Something I Couldn't Finish (single) | 01-duration = 3:46 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Pretty Girls Make Graves | 02link = Pretty Girls Make Graves | 02app = (Troy Tate version) | 02-duration = 3:35 (Morrissey/Marr) | 03 = Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others | 03link = Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others | 03app = (live) | 03-duration = 5:03 (Morrissey/Marr) | 04 = What's The World? | 04link = What's The World? | 04app = (live) | 04-duration = 2:07 (James) }} ==Lyrics== <poem> The lanes were silent with nothing or no one around for miles I doused our friendly venture with a hard-faced three-word gesture I started something I forced you into a zone and you were clearly never meant to go hair brushed and parted typical me, typical me typical me I started something ...and now I'm not too sure I grabbed you by the guilded beams that's what Tradition means and I doused another venture with a gesture that was...absolutely vile I started something forced you to a zone and you were clearly never meant to go Hair brushed and parted typical me, typical me typical me I started something ...and now I'm not too sure I grabbed you by the guilded beams that's what Tradition means and now eighteen months' hard-labour seems...fair enough I started something forced you to a zone and you were clearly never meant to go hair brushed and parted typical me, typical me typical me I started something and now I'm not too sure </poem> ==Music Video (UK)== <youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvUS0zDTowc</youtube> ===Credits=== * Directed by [[Director::Tim Broad]] {{CommonSongSections | Artist = The Smiths | Song = {{#replace:{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}| (single)|}}| (song)|}}}}
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