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[[Category:The Smiths Lyrics]] [[File:THAT_joke_isnt_funny_anymore.jpg | thumb | right | Cover art]] [[File:The_Enchanted_Desna_MS.jpg | thumb | right | Original image]] {{Discobox | Name = That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore | Total Length = 4:57 | Recorded = October 1984 | Writer = [[Writer::Morrissey]] / [[Writer::Johnny Marr]] | Producer = [[Producer::The Smiths]]<br>[[Stephen Street]] (Recording Engineer) | Mastered = | Art = Cover star: Child pictured is from "[[Mention::The Enchanted Desna]]" by Julia Solntseva.<br>The image was published in "[[Mention::Films And Filming]]" (February, 1965) | Vinyl Etching = UK 7": OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS / OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS UK 12": OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS, OUR SOULS / blank Canadian 12": HELEN WHEELS / blank | Publisher = [[Rough Trade Records]] (UK) | Format = 7" Vinyl, 12" Vinyl | Release = 5 July 1985 | Chart = UK #49 | Type = Single | ArtistType = The Smiths | Previous = The Headmaster Ritual | PreviousLink = The Headmaster Ritual (single) | Next = The Boy With The Thorn In His Side | NextLink = The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (single) }} ==Information== ==Track list== ===7" Vinyl=== UK - [Rough Trade RT 186] {{tracklist | 01 = That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore | 01link = That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (single) | 01-duration = 3:49 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Meat Is Murder | 02link = Meat Is Murder (song) | 02app = (live in Oxford) | 02-duration = 5:34 (Morrissey/Marr) }} ===12" Vinyl=== UK - [Rough Trade RTT 186] {{tracklist | 01 = That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore | 01link = That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (single) | 01-duration = 3:49 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Nowhere Fast | 02link = Nowhere Fast | 02app = (live in Oxford) | 02-duration = 2:31 (Morrissey/Marr) | 03 = Stretch Out And Wait | 03link = Stretch Out And Wait | 03app = (live in Oxford) | 03-duration = 2:49 (Morrissey/Marr) | 04 = Shakespeare's Sister | 04link = Shakespeare's Sister (single) | 04app = (live in Oxford) | 04-duration = 2:12 (Morrissey/Marr) | 05 = Meat Is Murder | 05link = Meat Is Murder (song) | 05app = (live in Oxford) | 05-duration = 5:34 (Morrissey/Marr) }} == Lyrics == <poem> Park the car at the side of the road you should know time's tide will smother you and I will too when you laugh about people who feel so very lonely their only desire is to die well, I'm afraid it doesn't make me smile I wish I could laugh but that joke isn't funny anymore it's too close to home and it's too near the bone it's too close to home and it's too near the bone more than you'll ever know It was dark as I drove the point home and on cold leather seats well, it suddenly struck me I just might die with a smile on my face after all I've seen this happen in other people's lives and now it's happening in mine </poem> {{CommonSongSections | Artist = The Smiths | Song = {{#replace:{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}| (single)|}}| (song)|}}}}
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