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[[File:French TIALTNGO.jpg | thumb | right | Rare French cover]] [[File:Thereisalight1992.jpg | thumb | right | Cover art]] [[File:1992 - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out CD2.jpg | thumb | right | CD2 Cover art]] {{Discobox | Name = There Is A Light That Never Goes Out | Total Length = 4:02<br>4:25 (Take 1 demo) | Recorded = September 1985 | Writer = [[Writer::Morrissey]] / [[Writer::Johnny Marr]] | Producer = [[Producer::Morrissey]] / [[Producer::Johnny Marr]]<br>[[Stephen Street]] (Recording Engineer) | Mastered = | Art = 2 [[Mention::Sandie Shaw]] images<br>Unknown boy (French cover)<br>Layout: [[Mention::Slim Smith]]<br>Art: [[Mention::Jo Slee]] <br>Sleeve: [[Morrissey]] | Vinyl Etching = No matrix message | Publisher = [[WEA]] (UK) | Format = 7" Vinyl, CD, Cassette, Promo-only 12" | Release = January 1987 (French 7")<br>November 16, 1992 - Single<ref name="smithsdiscography"/><br>June 16, 1986 - Original release on [[The Queen Is Dead]] | Chart = UK #25 (WEA release) | Type = Single | ArtistType = The Smiths | Previous = Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others | PreviousLink = Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (single) | Next = Shoplifters Of The World Unite | NextLink = Shoplifters Of The World Unite (single) | Reissue = true | ReissueDescription = WEA release | ReissuePrevious = How Soon Is Now? (WEA reissue) | ReissuePreviousLink = How Soon Is Now? (single) | ReissueNext = Ask (WEA reissue) | ReissueNextLink = Ask (single) }} [[Category:The Smiths Lyrics]] ==Information== * An alternate take of this song appears on [[The Smiths β Unreleased Demos & Instrumentals (LP bootleg)|The Smiths β Unreleased Demos & Instrumentals]] bootleg LP. ==Track list== ===7" Vinyl=== France - [Rough Trade β 90299] {{tracklist | 01 = There Is A Light That Never Goes Out | 01link = There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (single) | 01-duration = 4:02 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Half A Person | 02link = Half A Person | 02-duration = 3:35 (Morrissey/Marr) }} ===7" Vinyl=== UK - [WEA YZ0003] {{tracklist | 01 = There Is A Light That Never Goes Out | 01link = There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (single) | 01-duration = 4:02 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Handsome Devil | 02app = (live) | 02link = Handsome Devil | 02-duration = 2:53 (Morrissey/Marr) }} ===CD Single 1=== UK - [WEA YZ0003CD1] {{tracklist | 01 = There Is A Light That Never Goes Out | 01link = There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (single) | 01-duration = 4:02 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Hand In Glove | 02app = (live) | 02link = Hand In Glove (single) | 02-duration = 2:48 (Morrissey/Marr) | 03 = Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others | 03app = (live) | 03link = Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others | 03-duration = 5:04 (Morrissey/Marr) | 04 = Money Changes Everything | 04link = Money Changes Everything | 04-duration = 4:38 (Marr) }} ===CD Single 2=== UK - [WEA YZ0003CD2] {{tracklist | 01 = There Is A Light That Never Goes Out | 01link = There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (single) | 01-duration = 4:02 (Morrissey/Marr) | 02 = Hand In Glove | 02app = (featuring Sandie Shaw) | 02link = Hand In Glove (single) | 02-duration = 2:59 (Morrissey/Marr) | 03 = I Don't Owe You Anything | 03app = (featuring Sandie Shaw) | 03link = I Don't Owe You Anything | 03-duration = 4:04 (Morrissey/Marr) | 04 = Jeane | 04app = (featuring Sandie Shaw) | 04link = Jeane | 04-duration = 2:50 (Morrissey/Marr) }} == Lyrics == <poem> Take me out tonight where there's music and there's people who are young and alive driving in your car I never never want to go home because I haven't got one anymore take me out tonight because I want to see ''people'' and I want to see ''lights'' driving in your car oh please don't drop me home because it's not ''my'' home, it's ''their'' home and I'm welcome no more and if a double-decker bus crashes into us to die by your side such a heavenly way to die and if a ten ton truck kills the both of us to die by your side the pleasure and the privilege is mine take me out tonight oh take me anywhere, I don't care and in the darkened underpass I thought ''Oh, God, my chance has come at last'' (but then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask) take me out tonight take me anywhere, I don't care just driving in your car I never want to go home because I haven't got one I haven't got one </poem> ==Music Video== <youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INgXzChwipY</youtube> ===Credits=== * Directed by [[Director::Derek Jarman]] {{CommonSongSections | Artist = The Smiths | Song = {{#replace:{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}| (single)|}}| (song)|}}}} ==References And Notes== <references> <ref name="smithsdiscography">{{cite | title=The Smiths Discography compiled by Stephane Daigle | url=http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~moz/lyrics/smit-d.htm | pub=It May All End Tomorrow | author= | date= | dom= | type=ext }} </ref> </references>
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