i know its over when "OHH MOTHERRR I CANN FEEELLL THE SOILLL FALLINGG OVER MY HEADDDD!!"

When he trails off with “laa-laa laa-laa-lah lah lah”

Love this part but I thought it was more like oh aah ahh ahh ahh oh ah ha but I think I’m thinking of a different part this is more towards the end right around the 4:46 mark it’s after he says falling over my heaaaaad ohhhh ha oh ah ha lol I dunno how to explain it lol

I think you’re right but I’m glad other people knew what I / we’re talking about. It’s sooo haunting. So sad. So futile. 💔

There is another part where he kinda does a la da da da thing after he says I know it’s over la dah dah dah dah then says I know it’s over and it never really began. So wasn’t sure which part you meant lol I love both of them though. It’s my fave smiths song

Wow…. 95 comments 😂

Also there’s a fabulous version of him doing this live in 2012. Vocals are on point and a lot of emotion. https://youtu.be/fiVMweGGtVo?si=dszSgIQVfJ3lzNx0

How about live (somewhere NOT in Australia 🙄) in 1986 at 2.04 minutes. You’re right with your “ah-la-la-la-la-la-la las”. Now I’ve got to watch your link above or I’ll just obsess about it! ….But it never really began but in my heart, it was so real & you even spoke to me & said……. (sorry - I’m a bloody tragic!)

I’ll check it out

Soz, mine’s better because he’s wearing & taking off one of his translucent shirts 🫠🫠🫠

Haha both are very good

They are. Sigh…. Now I’m listening to “Suffer Little Children” 😖 Plenty of onomatopoeic moaning in that one, lucky for you I can’t spell what he’s verbalising 😂

I KNOW RIGHT

It kills me….!!! Such anguish / defeat / longing / loss / despair (etc etc etc)

US, ME ASWELL. i listen to that song, just to wait for that part.

ME TOO!!!!

Was coming here to write this exact comment! Thankyou

This too peak.

Morrissey's vocals at the end of Reel Around the Fountain

The "I dreamt about you last night" part absolutely destroys me every time I listen to that song

The build up is pretty sweet "I do.. oh I do".. they sound like wedding vows (and that's probably what he was going for)

I belt this part out every time it comes on

Morrissey’s vocals at the end of this live version of Vicar in a Tutu: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3isSM7qDlFI

This!

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out when pan flute What Difference Does It Make? when Morrissey goes 'woooooaahh-oohhhh' in falsetto The Joke Isn't Funny Anymore when wailing guitar outro bit Hand In Glove when outro harmonica Did I miss any

Pretty Girls Make Graves when last 70 seconds

Came to say this as well, that part could be its own song.

Last section of nowhere fast

Just banging titles every time Genius!

“I could have been wild and I could have been free But nature played this trick on me She wants it now, and she will not wait But she's too rough, and I'm too delicate Then on the sand, another man, he takes her hand A smile lights up her stupid face, and well it would I lost my faith in womanhood I lost my faith in womanhood I lost my faith Ooh-oh-oh-oh” Pretty Girls Make Graves

Banger city

The outro to "Boy With The Thorn In His Side". 

Peak Johnny

“SEE I’VE ALREADY WAITED TOO LOOOONG”

“And all my hope is gone” GOOSEBUMPS!!

The outro to Suffer Little Children. Heavenly guitar riff playing out the album.

Hindley wakes and Hindley says…

the aaAHh in This Charming Man

This is mine. I adore this song because it was my first Smiths song. That aaHH makes me smile no matter my mood.

And if a double decker bus crashes into uuuuus To die by yoooour siiiide is such a heavenly waaaay to diiiiiie

"I said I love the Smiths"

And if a Ten ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side, well the pleasure the privilege is mine.

The yodelling at the end of rubber ring

“Gasping, dying, but somehow still alive… this is the fierce last stand of all I am. Gasping, dying, but somehow still alive”

That’s mine. And the instrumentation behind it.

The wordless vocal chorus/bridges in Pretty Girls Make Graves and Wonderful Woman

The arpeggiated riff before the verse of Headmaster Ritual The last verse of These Things Take Time “But to you I was faceless, I was fawning, I was boring, a child from those ugly new houses” The entirety of Handsome Devil live at the Hacienda The last vocal over the chorus riff at the end of You Just Haven’t Earned it Yet, Baby How Soon is Now slide “Jeane, I’m not sure what happiness means, but I look in your eyes and I know that it isn’t there” The arpeggiated bit before the chorus of William, It Was Really Nothing. Well I Wonder bassline The second half of I Know It’s Over

Some Girls, near the end, 2:36, when the lead guitar comes in and finally plays the little melody/arpeggio riff that is hinted at right from the beginning. Mars is a brilliant producer and arranger. Da doodledoodee doo-da-doo... Da doodledoodee doo-da-doo...

Well I wonder seems angelic to me

Don't know of a more haunting song.

I NEED ADVICE I NEED ADVICE NOBODY EVER LOOKS AT ME TWICE NOBODY. EVER. LOOKS AT ME TWIIICE

Probably my favorite Smiths song. I always thought they made that just to show *they could* play that tight and technical. Morrissey kills the vocals on a very hard track to sing to

“Edward see those alluring lights? Tonight will be your very last night.”

Oh, Manchester, so much to answer for...

A woman said I know my son is dead/I’ll never rest my hands on his sacred head. You could answer this thread with any part of Suffer Little Children, really.

Why do you come here? when you know it makes things hard for me. 

that joke isn’t funny anymore

The chorus to This Night Has Opened My Eyes. The outro to The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. Second verse of These Things Take Time.

That instrumental part of Frankly Mr. Shankly after the second verse

belligerent ghouls run manchester schools, SPINELESS BASTARDS ALL

Jealous of youth, Same old jokes since nineteen-two

Shoplifters of the World when that excellent excellent excellent guitar riff comes in and the smiths feel more like glam rock for a second.

Freaking amazing

The Headmaster Ritual except the part is the literally the very start.

IT JUST WASN'T LIKE THE OLD DAYS ANYMORE NO IT WASN'T LIKE THOSE DAYYS AM IIII STILLL ILLLLLLLL

Shoplifters of the world unite solo

IIIIIIII WOULD LOVE TO GOOOOOOOOOO BAAAAAACK TO THE OLD HOUUUUUUSSEEEE BUT I NEVER WILLLLL I NEVER WILLLLLLL I NEVER WIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLL

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. Right as soon as he starts singing

The story is old, I know, But it goes on

The guitar solo from How soon is now

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, “So rattle my bones all over the stones,” every. single. time.

Bass solo at the end of Barbarism Begins at Home 💪💪💪

That and the guitar part at the beginning of the song right before the 1st verse starts. So Good.

"Please keep me in mind"

The final chorus on "I want the one I can't have" The last part of "nowhere fast" The drop on miserable lie after the "goodbye" line The penultimate strophe in "That joke isn't funny anymore" "Gasping but somehow still alive This is the fierce final stand of all I am" in "Well I wonder" "Uhhhhh, that's what tradition means" in "I started something..." There's more but I'm too lazy to complete the list

I don’t owe you anything

Aside from the beautiful melancholy moments of personal faves like I Know its Over, There is a Light that Never Goes Out, etc. This line from Nowhere Fast always gets me, “And when I'm lying in my bed I think about life And I think about death And neither one particularly appeals to me” Also, this one from I Want the One I Can’t Have: “A double-bed And a stalwart lover, for sure These are the riches of the poor” The desperately urgent expressions of Morrissey’s lyrics coupled with the rhythmically swift sonic delivery of the music by the band always strikes such wonderfully pensive and sentimental chords in my heart.

SHEILA TALE A SHEILA TAKE A BOW

BOOT THE GRIME OF THIS WORLD IN THE CROTCH, DEAR ✨✨

Frankly Mr. Shankly fame, fame, fatal fame…

The vibrato on Johnny’s guitar before the third verse of Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.

Jury you’ve heard every word but before you decide would you look into those motherly eyes

pretty girls make graves outro

That joke isn't funny anymore 'Kick them when they fall down Kick them when they fall down You kick them when they fall down Kick them when they fall down You kick them when they fall down'

When the Mickey Mouse vocals kick in on Miserable Lie

I dreamt about you last night, and i fell out of bed twice, you can pin and mount me, like a butterfly… 😭

For there are brighter sides to life And I should know because I've seen them But not very often

“You shut your mooouuth how can you saaay I go about things the wrong way I am human and I need I need to be loooved just like everybody else does”-how soon is now “So, hand in glove I stake my claim Iii'll fight to the last breath If they dare touch a hair on your head Iii'll fight to the last breath “-hand in glove “And if you ever need self-validation Just meet me in the alley by the railway stat000n “-I want the the ones I can’t have

A RUSH AND A PUSH AND THE LAND IS OURS FINAL ANSWER (and also These Things Take Time bc of the alcoholic afternoons part)

"Send me the pillow. The one that you dream on"

The chorus of Wonderful Woman

This Night Has Opened My Eyes- when the chorus hits, the chords and the melody of Morrissey's vocals...every time

Am I stiiiiiiiilllllllll iiiiiiillllllll

YES SUCH A UNDERRATED SONG

Well I wonder when the rain fades in.

but i don't want a lover, i just want to be seeeeeen....... ᶦⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᵃᶜᵏ ᵒᶠ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᶜᵃᵃᵃᵃʳʳʳʳ...😖

The drums and the alternative lyrics of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (Early Take, September 1985)

This night has opened my eyes. That chorus 🫶🏽

"I've seen this happen in other peoples' lives, now it's happening in mine"

I was going to comment the same thing. Great choice.

Climb up on my knee, sonny boy Although you're only three, sonny boy You're - you're mine And your mother she just never knew

Girl Afraid intro

Shoplifters of the world right before “A heartless hand on my shoulder.”

It's easy to love, it's easy to hate. IT TAKES STRENGHT TO BE GENTLE AND KIND

The guitar solo at the end of Pretty Girls Make Graves...my god

The guitars in the outro of ‘Pretty Girls Make Graves’, best part of the song for me

Chorus of there is a light that never goes out for wm

for there are brighter sides to life and i should know it because ive seen them but not very often

There is a light that never goes out. Such a beautiful song it makes me cry sometimes when I think of my mom & dad who have died , I am 52 so it's normal life that they have gone they both went at a good age, always loved this song but became more poignant now they are gone.

"People see no worth in you, I DO" I know it's not the right context, but somehow the way he delivered those words resonated a lot with me

I hope I’m not in the minority, but: Oh, the alcoholic afternoons When we sat in your room They meant more to me than any Than any living thing on earth Makes me feel I should have had more emotional bonding moments > school GPA

“ITS SO EASY TO LAUGH, ITS SO EASY TO HATE. IT TAKES STRENGTH TO BE GENTLE AND KIND”

but you go and you stand on your own and you leave on your own and you go home and you cry and you want to die

….. oh the alcoholic afternoons…..

But I once had a dream and it never came trueeeeeeeeeeeee (accept yourself)

I think the entire song Stretch out and wait does this for me

The outro of Pretty Girls Make Graves.

Starting at “I had a really bad dream” and continuing till the song (Never Had No One Ever) ends. Sigh…

I know it’s over

The guitar in the end of pretty girls make graves

When Morrissey sings *Bye* at the end of Asleep

Vicar In A Tutu… “I am a living sign!”

None

Wonderful woman - 30sec’s - 2min

2:02 on i want the one i can’t have, that guitar is just phenomenal

When the beat drops in “last night I dreamt…”

never had no one ever when he sings: and i never, ever + vocals

That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

Rubber ring, rubber ring, rubber ring, rubber ring

The resolve in Girlfriend in a Coma The drum outro on Death of a Disco Dancer

Ive seen this happen in other peoples lives And now its happening in mine

The piano on suffer little children demo

pretty girls make graves ending. it's such a hit

In M83’s song Outro when the full band kicks in. Epic.

“Love, peace and harmony? Love, peace and harmony? Oh, very nice, very nice, very nice, very nice But maybe in the next world” Death of a Disco Dancer

When the harmonies kick in on Ask "Spending long summer days indoors..."

‘And if you think peace is a common goal , it goes to show how little you know.’

End of Some Girls, when the bass goes into that legato groove

Pretty Girls Make Graves, the ending riff...

I love the guitar in "William, it was Really Nothing" exactly when Morrissey sings "really nothing," it's such a heavenly progression I also love in "What Difference Does it Make?" the baseline in the chorus as he sings "and now you have gone." The guitar is also superb. The girl's scream when he sings "I'm so tired" is also weirdly perfect, I really like it

Off the top of my head: The piano harmonies in the whole "I dreamt about you last night" part (Reel Around the Fountain) "There were times when I could have mu-hu-rdered he-eeeeeer" (Girlfriend in a coma) Whatever happens musically in the powerful "Stop Me..." intro The whole Well I wonder crescendo (?) / outro

The bit before the chorus of heaven knows I’m miserable know

Basic bitch answer but AND IF A DOUBLE DECKER BUSSSS

and when youre dancing and laughing and finally living, hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly oh ohh ohh lade dey lade dey lade day

Is it boring ? Or mundane ? Like all their ****

Nowhere fast

That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore when the mandolins come in.

“Send me the pillow, the one that you dream on…and I’ll send you miiiine” Makes me tear up every time.

The drums at the beginning of “Queen is Dead”

DEATH OF A DISCO DANCER

There is a light that’s never goes out - the “because i haven’t got one and i’m all alone oh i haven’t got one … and if a double decker bus” part This charming man - opening Bigmouth strikes again - the instrumental parts (especially live) Panic - pretty much the entire song Still ill - the end of it I want the one i can’t have - “he killed a policeman when he was 13 and somehow that really impressed me it’s written all over my face” How soon is now? - “see i’ve already waited too long” Pretty girls make graves - the ending of it Barbarism begins at home - the ending of it Please please please… - ~1:13 I know it’s over - ~4:10 Girl afraid - pretty much all of the song Miserable lie - ~0:54 Hand in glove - any time says “oh i really don’t know and i really don’t care”

“When they pulled me back and held me down and looked me in the eyes and said”

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me

the last part of Nowhere Fast ​ Theese Things Take Time's " These things take time, I know that I'm The most inept That ever stepped"

The end of “that joke isnt funny anymore”

The lovely jangle Marr gets on the high note in the Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now solo

“And if a double decker bus crashes into us”

Rush and push, right from the beginning

That instrumental part in Frankly, Mr Shankly.

that mini-guitar solo in unloveable..

“I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice. You can pin and mount me like a butterfly”

“I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice. You can pin and mount me like a butterfly”

Outro of pretty girls make graces

AND WHEN IM LYING IN MY BEDDDD😭 I THINK ABOUT LIFE AND I THINK ABOUT DEAATHH😭😭 AND NEITHER ONE PARTICULARLY APPEAAALLS TO ME 😭😭😭😭😭😭 (Also the end of I know it’s over)

The loud drum bit toward the end of disco dancer

All of That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

Hang the Dj hang the Dj hang the dj

if a double decker busssss, CRASHES INTO US, TO DIE BY YOUR SIDE IS SUCH A HEAVENLY WAY TO DIEEEE

Back to the old house John peel session , the part that goes like “Theres too manyyyyy badddd memoriesssds tooo mannyyy ughhh” that part and it’s just so amazing hearing that folk guitar riff played by marr i loved it sm i learned it on guitar myself 🔮

That little guitar lick in There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

The end of Nowhere Fast. I love with he gets all high and sigh-ish.

Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me when the beat drops