![]() Strangeways, Here We Come (1987) [ larger cover art ] |
The lanes were silent
There was nothing, no one, nothing around for miles
I doused our friendly venture
With a hard-faced three-word gesture
I started something, I 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 gilded beams
That's what tradition means
And I doused another venture
With a gesture that was absolutely vile
I started something, I 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 gilded beams
That's what tradition means
And now eighteen months' hard labour seems
Fair enough
I started something, I 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 started something, I started something
Typical me, typical me, typical me, typical me
Typical me, typical me, typical me
I started something and now I'm not too sure
| Pharlap (Bahama, NC) | Posted: Jun 06, 2013 - 07:45 "18 months hard labor...seems fair enough" What a card! |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Oct 24, 2012 - 22:39 Poacher wrote: Interesting. A holiday walking around and around a field in Ireland endlessly listening to a Smiths cassette. . . bet that was a holiday to remember. I absolutely laughed my ass off when I read this. |
| Sloggydog (UK) | Posted: Feb 15, 2012 - 01:13 Nice one Mozza! |
| olivertwist (Atlanta GA) | Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 06:50 Proclivities wrote: You seem to be awake enough to write comments and post enlarged emoticons. Good one! You crack me up, Proclivities. |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: Oct 11, 2011 - 06:10 GuiltyFeat wrote: I bought this album on cassette and listened to it over an again walking around a field in Dublin on a family holiday there in November 1987. It was and it is awesome. Interesting. A holiday walking around and around a field in Ireland endlessly listening to a Smiths cassette. . . bet that was a holiday to remember. |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Sep 09, 2011 - 19:14 Proclivities wrote: You seem to be awake enough to write comments and post enlarged emoticons. Many guys suffer from enlarged emoticons when they sleep y'know. |
| michaelgmitchell (Ontario, Canada) | Posted: Sep 09, 2011 - 19:13 Shut up, please. You're brutal. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Aug 09, 2011 - 10:45 dedawson wrote: Please sir, no more Morrissey. dedawson wrote: Please sir, no more Morrissey. dedawson wrote: Ya know, after all these years, the sound of Morrissey still puts me to... ZZZ zzz ZZZ zzz You seem to be awake enough to write comments and post enlarged emoticons. |
| Alexandra (Here and Now) | Posted: Aug 09, 2011 - 10:38 GuiltyFeat wrote: I bought this album on cassette and listened to it over an again walking around a field in Dublin on a family holiday there in November 1987. It was and it is awesome. |
| suesblues (Sydney, Australia) | Posted: Jul 09, 2011 - 01:55 j'adore... |
| GuiltyFeat (Ra'anana) | Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 09:33 I bought this album on cassette and listened to it over an again walking around a field in Dublin on a family holiday there in November 1987. It was and it is awesome. |
| Kristi (Athens, GA) | Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 09:33 Listening to this song, I am suddenly back in high school, swooning with The Smiths and drowning in teen angst.
Despite this (or maybe because of this), I adore it! |
| SlinkyJ | Posted: Nov 30, 2010 - 11:07 More Morrissey! Can't ever have enough. |
| bokey (Up on the tightwire.One sides ice and one is fire.) | Posted: Oct 29, 2010 - 19:27 horstman wrote: I'd prefer it you'd just cut off your hands! But then I'd still be hearing it and couldn't reach the pencil.The guy sings like a child who has never developed his vocal range. It bores me. |
| Fables85 (Not Here) | Posted: Jun 24, 2010 - 06:20 Nettle wrote: morrisey is so borish. he always speaks of his meloncholic drivel. First, get yourself a good spell checker! We will get to your bad taste later. |
| horstman (Syracuse, New York) | Posted: Apr 21, 2010 - 17:05 bokey wrote: It's quicker if you just jam a pencil into your eardrum. I'd prefer it you'd just cut off your hands! |
| Pharlap (Bahama, NC) | Posted: Feb 17, 2010 - 12:38 "and 15 years hard labor...seems fair enough to me." Ha Ha. That's priceless. No one has a mind quite like Stephen Patrick Morrissey. |
| peacockangel (Phoenix) | Posted: Feb 17, 2010 - 12:34 wow I guess you either love them or hate them huh lol |
| crockydile (Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way) | Posted: Feb 17, 2010 - 12:33 Smoove_D wrote: Well I'll be darned. A Smiths song that I don't mind. Now if only someone else could be singing... Wow, you must be my twin separated at birth!! I love The Onion, too!! |
| bokey (Up on the tightwire.One sides ice and one is fire.) | Posted: Nov 15, 2009 - 07:30 tg3k wrote: Anything "Smiths" or "Morrisey" related earns a quick trip to the Pause button. Bleah. It's quicker if you just jam a pencil into your eardrum. |
| Smoove_D (Milwaukee) | Posted: Oct 14, 2009 - 20:04 Well I'll be darned. A Smiths song that I don't mind. Now if only someone else could be singing... |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Aug 12, 2009 - 19:05 EssexTex wrote: I can't be bothered to comment on this song....oh! It looks like you started something that you couldn't finish. |
| mirage (way up in the sky) | Posted: Jul 12, 2009 - 03:25 dedawson wrote: Please sir, no more Morrissey. dedawson wrote: Please sir, no more Morrissey. well... you make yourself quite clear |
| Frater_Kork (Uppsala, Sweden) | Posted: Jun 10, 2009 - 08:07 Bleh... |
| dedawson (Thousand Oaks, CA (You never know where you're going til you get there)) | Posted: Apr 30, 2009 - 21:18 Please sir, no more Morrissey. |
| Darlington (Columbia, South Carolina) | Posted: Mar 30, 2009 - 08:15 Alexandra wrote: HELL yes!!!! What she said! |
| MacHazzer (The Netherlands) | Posted: Mar 30, 2009 - 08:14 Typical me... |
| dedawson (You never know where you're going til you get there (TOaks, CA)) | Posted: Mar 07, 2009 - 11:37 Please sir, no more Morrissey. |
| rez | Posted: Feb 26, 2009 - 20:01 Nettle wrote: morrisey is so borish. he always speaks of his meloncholic drivel. Yeah he should see a doctor about that. |
| alaken (Missoula, MT) | Posted: Feb 03, 2009 - 22:42 Love me some Smiths! This song, though - not one I'd choose... |
| von_Hayek (Fr-Su Duesseldorf, Mo-Th Magdeburg) | Posted: Jan 26, 2009 - 05:51 tg3k wrote: Anything "Smiths" or "Morrisey" related earns a quick trip to the Pause button. Bleah. |
| betsyroks (uk leicester) | Posted: Jan 03, 2009 - 07:04 Gryn wrote: Or at least a changing of music channels. yep |
| Gryn (Oregon) | Posted: Nov 24, 2008 - 01:00 tg3k wrote: Anything "Smiths" or "Morrisey" related earns a quick trip to the Pause button. Bleah. Or at least a changing of music channels. |
| tg3k (The Jungle - 459.62 miles south of Paradise, CA) | Posted: Nov 24, 2008 - 00:59 Anything "Smiths" or "Morrisey" related earns a quick trip to the Pause button. Bleah. |
| rtb (NE corner of Work and Boredom) | Posted: Oct 23, 2008 - 11:57 BANTER!! |
| luca77 (Melbourne,Australia) | Posted: Aug 21, 2008 - 07:48 Nettle wrote: morrisey is so borish. he always speaks of his meloncholic drivel. It's great to see people not let spelling get in the way of a good bicker! (sorry if I've missed the point of a clever joke here) |
| Alexandra (The Gem City, Ohio) | Posted: Aug 21, 2008 - 07:39 HELL yes!!!! |
| songbirdfemme (syracuse ny) | Posted: Jul 29, 2008 - 10:42 Nettle wrote: morrisey is so borish. he always speaks of his meloncholic drivel.
I know of many people who do the same... what a reflection of real people, this morrisey character! |
| Nettle | Posted: Jun 27, 2008 - 21:56 morrisey is so borish. he always speaks of his meloncholic drivel. |
| wferrier (Johnson City, New York; Home of the Factory) | Posted: May 27, 2008 - 11:17 Panama_Floyd wrote: An 8, just because I'd like to hear something other than "How Soon is Now" every once in awhile.
I love "How Soon is Now", but the terrestrial radio seems to have chosen it as their token Smiths song. Even the university & public radio here plays little else. The problem with "How Soon IS Now" is that Tatu did a better version. |
| esotericderek | Posted: May 27, 2008 - 11:14 EssexTex wrote: I can't be bothered to comment on this song....oh!
When I'm listening to this song I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. Shazam! |
| EssexTex (Austin TX) | Posted: Apr 17, 2008 - 04:37 I can't be bothered to comment on this song....oh! |
| Zep (Opening Day) | Posted: Apr 02, 2008 - 09:48 I would go for "lesser-known Smiths" ... If there were lesser-known Smiths that should be played ever again. |
| htowncoog (Texas) | Posted: Dec 13, 2007 - 08:28 Great tune, great album! |
| dedawson (Thousand Oaks, CA) | Posted: Nov 27, 2007 - 15:47 Ya know, after all these years, the sound of Morrissey still puts me to... ZZZ zzz ZZZ zzz |
| bokey (South of Hades,but still praying for rain) | Posted: Oct 11, 2007 - 13:02 Shesdifferent wrote: Kind of like a lobotomy. |
| peyotecoyote (London, Ontario) | Posted: Oct 11, 2007 - 12:59 No...not so much |
| jjbix (san diego) | Posted: Oct 11, 2007 - 12:58 W e A K |
| Panama_Floyd (Atlanta, GA) | Posted: Jul 25, 2007 - 00:55 An 8, just because I'd like to hear something other than "How Soon is Now" every once in awhile. I love "How Soon is Now", but the terrestrial radio seems to have chosen it as their token Smiths song. Even the university & public radio here plays little else. |
| Rockabobbie (monitor-side in the foothills of NC) | Posted: May 07, 2007 - 10:09 Yeah, the lesser known Smiths. Grabs me by the scruff of the neck every time. That's what tradition means... |

I love The Onion, too!!