Lyrics for Miserable Lie as interpreted by weezerific:cutlery

Miserable Lie Lyrics
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
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 ...

I'm just a country-mile behind
The world

I'm just a country-mile behind
The whole world
Oh oh, oh ...

Take me when you go
Oh oh, oh...

Take me when you go
Oh oh, oh ...

I need advice, I need advice

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Chloe le Fay
06-19-2002

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A song that only Morrissey could write. Similar in lyrical theme to "Pretty Girls Make Graves". Morrissey mentioned before that he lost his virginity when he was 13, and that it wasn't very good, so perhaps this is what the song was about..."you have destroyed my flower-like life". There's definately a bit of an at least latent homosexual element to it..."please stay with your kind, and I'll stay with mine". Also a bit of a criticism of people who keep their brains between their legs.

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Chloe le Fay
06-19-2002

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Oh, I forgot to add...it's definately attacking folks who say they "love" someone just so they can get into their pants, lust masquerading as love.

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butterflykiss84
07-24-2002

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I like the lyrics but the music which goes along with it reverts my interest into other Smiths songs

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Johnno
06-10-2003

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I think Morrissey is implying that true love does not exist; it is merely lust and jealousy

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Jemaeux
06-03-2004

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"flower-like life" is from the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde.

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maggotbrain
03-21-2005

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i love this song. addicting

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Random Boy
03-31-2005

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"I look at yours; you laugh at mine.."
Love it.

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maggotbrain
06-05-2005

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this is my favourite smiths song EVER
omg its bliss

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z0MbiE
06-12-2005

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Reel Around The Fountain

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Boss Man
07-16-2005

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How about "Miserable Live" for the title of a live morrissey album?

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marquicerise
12-28-2005

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"...by his sweetness and goodness to her through the brief years of his flower-like life."

-Oscar Wilde's De Profundis

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nightandday
12-28-2005

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"Morrissey mentioned before that he lost his virginity when he was 13, and that it wasn't very good, so perhaps this is what the song was about..."you have destroyed my flower-like life". "
He did say he lost his virginity at the age of 13; however, the line about "Whalley Range" doesn't support the theory that it is about that, since a rented room in Whalley Range is where Morrissey used to cohabit with Linder Sterling (and I think the guitarist from her band, Ludus) for about a year when he was about 19.

And as for "latent homosexual element" - what if it's a complete renouncement of romantic relationships instead? You know, as they said in Sex and the City, being single and being gay is not exactly the same...LOL

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new_west
01-01-2006

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This song is wonderful. I haven't closely looked at its lyrics yet. Out of the Smiths debut version and the peel sessions version, the peel sessions version is much better. Faster and the intro is slightly different.

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jameseckrippie
01-17-2006

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i always thought "please stay with your own kind and I'll stay with mine" meant something more like the one's with more of morrisseys philosophies of sex ..not anything about homosexuality

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nightandday
05-15-2006

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according to the book Songs That Saved Your Life, in the first version of the song the lyrics were a lot more repetitive and the line about 'criminal world' was repeated a lot; Morrissey sang in falcetto: "What have I done to deserve this?"

There is another line which isn't on the version of the song from Smiths debut, or in the lyric sheet, but Morrissey use to sing it live. He even sang it at their last gig at the Brixton Academy in 1986, in medley with London:
to the melody of "I'm just a country mile behind the world" -

"I'd run a hundred miles away from you"

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Somber_Eyes
10-07-2006

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his voice scares the hell outta me in this song.

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all over
10-23-2006

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I think it's one of moz's songs that takes from a small incident in his life and dramatises it hugely. it's probably about living with Linder , maybe thinking ur gay and then realising ur not so sure and not wanting confusion being brought up again

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the-princess-is-mad
11-07-2006

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the 'I need advice' part is so poignantly desperate.

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