Miserable Lie

By The Smiths

On The Smiths

Released on February 20, 1984

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So, goodbye

Please stay with your own kind

And I'll stay with mine

There's something against us

It's not time, it's not time

So, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

I know I need hardly say

How much I love your casual way

Oh, but please put your tongue away

A little higher and we're well away

The dark nights are drawing in

And your humour is as black as them

I look at yours, you laugh at mine

And love is just a miserable lie

You have destroyed my flower-like life

Not once, twice

You have corrupt my innocent mind

Not once, twice

I know the wind-swept mystical air

It means I'd like to see your underwear

I recognise that mystical air

It means I'd like to seize your underwear

What do we get for our trouble and pain?

Just a rented room in Whalley Range

What do we get for our trouble and pain?

Whalley Range

Into the depths of the criminal world

I followed her

I need advice, I need advice

I need advice, I need advice

'Cause nobody ever looks at me twice

Nobody ever looks at me twice

I'm just a country-mile behind

The world

I'm just a country-mile behind

The whole world

Oh-oh-oh, oh

Oh-oh-oh, oh

Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh, oh

I'm just a country-mile behind

The world

I'm just a country-mile behind

The whole world

Oh-oh-oh, oh

Oh-oh-oh, oh

Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh, oh

Take me when you go, oh

Oh, oh, woo

Take me when you go, oh

Oh, oh, woo

I need advice, I need advice