Lyrics for Never Had No One Ever as interpreted by weezerific:cutlery

Never Had No One Ever Lyrics
When you walk without ease
On these
Streets were you were raised
I had a really bad dream
It lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days
I never, I'm alone, and I
Never, ever oh ... had no one ever

Now I'm outside your house
I'm alone
And I'm outside your house
I hate to intrude ...
Oh, Alone, I'm Alone, I'm Alone, I'm Alone
I'm Alone
I'm Alone
And I never, never ... oh ... had no one ever
I never had no one ever
I never had no, no one ever
Had no one never
Never ... no ...
Oh ...

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Chloe le Fay
06-19-2002

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This song is just...wow. It's so beautiful, so moving, in sort of a dreamy, surreal kind of way. One of my favourites.

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butterflykiss84
07-24-2002

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I would love to know what this date meant to Morrissey 'I had a really bad dream , It lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days'. Beautiful song, under-rated as many of them are.


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The_Codfather
06-06-2004

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I'm guessing it's how old he was at the time. Kinda sad, but i can relate. Gotta love that about Smiths' songs.

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Ad_Nauseam
06-16-2004

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I tentatively suggest that 20 yrs, 7 months and 27 days was his age when he lost his virginity. he is thinking about that first person because he has just broken up with someone else.

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periwinklebyday
10-06-2004

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Morrissey is celibate and pretty maintains that he never had sex nor will. So I agree that 20 years is when he wrote the song. I wonder if when he sings it live if he substitutes in his current age. Ha!

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ladyboygrrl
12-21-2004

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i heard that morrissey lost his virginity when he was 13, hated it and has been celibate ever since. but that could just be a vicious rumour. it would be interesting to find out exactly when the song was written (not just when it was recorded) to see if it corresponds with morrissey's age at the time.

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blackaliss
03-03-2005

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i feel so much when i listen to this song. i feel so much understanding...

i don't think the 20 years etc is simply about sex celibacy. losing virginity etc. i mean it could be about some kind of celibacy but i doubt that's what all the "i'm alone" is referring to. it's a deeper loneliness.

as for first age at which one loses virginity. i doubt one would feel like this about those years without sex?! i mean who cares if you're not having sex when you're 2 years old...

for all we know the years is random..

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richeye
04-09-2005

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This song is about isolation, about being an outsider ('When you walk without ease/ On these streets where you were raised').
I think the 'twenty years' reference is him saying that his life up to that point has been a nightmare.

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Karmechanic
07-08-2005

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The "twenty years" bit refers to the period before the Smiths formed. Lucky for me I found a site with interviews where Moz explains the lyrics to almost every song in their repetoire. He was talking about how he was a lost and miserable adolescent and the Smiths were what he felt made his life worth living. This just makes it that much more sad that they broke up. By the time this song was written, I think he would've been about twenty five. Not certain though.

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Boss Man
07-17-2005

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I always thought this song was about a stalker hanging around outside somebody's house.

Ghostly piano!

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davidbeauy
09-19-2005

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In reference to the above comment, Morrissey uses the stalker reference to illustrate how someone drowning in the depths of loneliness might feel -- always peering in longingly, but keeping one's shadowy distance. I love how Morrissey puts a deranged yet sadly truthful spin on a song that could essentially be "poor me." It is in Morrissey's solemn insightfulness and honesty that make it impossible to characterize The SMiths work as being simply depressing, maudlin, or doomful. Although these feelings are addressed, Morrissey always says something deeper about the human experience that goes beyond happy, sad. I love how this most inaccessible song (compared to the rest of THE QUEEN IS DEAD which is obviously extremely catchy) was plunged in the middle THE QUEEN IS DEAD, almost as if to say " we are the smiths and we do as we may." True artists. It is a song that grows on you so that after you've listened to THE QUEEN IS DEAD 200 times you can have a moment of deep reverence for this forgotten gem among alternative rock Diamonds.

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nightandday
12-29-2005

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" i heard that morrissey lost his virginity when he was 13, hated it and has been celibate ever since. "

Only partly true. He said that he lost his virginity "in my early teens, 12 or 13. It was an isolated incident, and accident. It all went downhill after that. I have no pleasant memories whatsoever." But that was NOT when he became celibate. He said that in his adolescence up to the age of 21,22,23, he had had a series of sexual encounters, with women as well as with a man, but they were all "very blunt, firunately brief, and horrendous experiences", but never a loving relationship, and that he finally decided to abstain from sex.

as for the bad dream, well, I have no idea what he meant! he was 23 when The Smiths formed, so I don't see the connection!

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marquicerise
01-13-2006

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"20 years, seven months and 27 days"
Strictly speaking, this would date life's awakening for Morrissey as the 18th of January, 1980. Though on that day, its been said Morrissey was at home, nursing a sore foot, reading a copy of The Murderers' Who's Who and recalling a recent horrific spell as a hospital porter.

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CharmingMan
02-14-2006

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Morrissey was born in Aug 1959. So yes he was in his mid 20s when the song was recorded and yes it highlights his adolescent years up to his low point.

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infotainment_lad
02-18-2006

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I'd heard it was about the council estate where he grew up (the British equivalent to the 'ghettos' in America, for the non-British fans), which was a partiicularly rough area of Manchester. He was very lacking in confidence, and often found it hard to walk the streets for fear of being beaten up. This is about being in awe of people who could walk around there without that fear, and it's about just admiring them from a distance, most likely platonically.

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rufiohaspan
10-12-2006

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"It lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days"
maybe his life was good b4 those 20 years? and after it just sucked big time. I often feel like life is a nightmare nowadays lol

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SoundgardeNirvana
03-23-2007

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Morrissey never had a sexual encounter with a man but his homosexual fans wish he did.

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bansheenoise
04-03-2007

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Morrissey. I love him so.

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mozcat
05-20-2007

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"Morrissey never had a sexual encounter with a man but his homosexual fans wish he did." Yes ,so does his hetro fans,which I think you are.Tsk..

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SoundgardeNirvana
06-12-2007

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Out of all the people who replied to this...I'm the only who's never had no one ever.

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marki_j
06-21-2007

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When you walk without ease
On these
Streets were you were raised"

i can really relate to that manchester on the whole is not the best place to live for a quiet life its a rather bitter sweet place. the streets are full of violence and sociopaths not a good idea walking around at night unless you want to get beaten up for looking at someone the wrong way.

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Hirostratus
01-05-2008

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I've never had no one ever. The bad dream is 19 years, 5 months, and 17 days long and counting.

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CarolineD4
01-30-2008

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18, some months, but who's counting ;-)
Don't you just hate that half of the Smiths songs are about you? I do.. It's depressing. But nice to feel understood for a change.

I think those 20 years, 7 months and 27 days are
how old morrissey was when he wrote it...
or how old morrissey was when he finally had someone, though I don't know in what way. I don't think that though cause the song is still sad after those lines.

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popmyculture
04-07-2008

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according to johnny rogan, the smiths biographer, morrissey spent the day in question [which was the 18th of january, 1980] at home, perusing "murderer's who's who".

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TedB
08-12-2008

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"20 years, seven months and 27 days. Strictly speaking, this would date life's awakening for Morrissey as the 18th of January, 1980”.

Nobody remembers the first few years of their lives and even Morrissey probably wasn’t born miserable. Maybe Morrissey’s can put a date to his earliest unhappy memory and that happened 20 years, 7 months and 27 days before he wrote the song. This would make him about 5 years old when his “really bad dream” began.

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