When you walk without ease
On these
Streets where you were raised
I had a really bad dream
It lasted twenty years, seven months, and twenty seven 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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"Never Had No One Ever" as written by Steven Patrick/marr Morrissey

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    General Comment:I thought I had the song all figured out until I read everyone's own interpretation. I'm stumped now! I took it as something significant happening like losing his virginity and still finding himself alone. That really didn't do it for him. But the meaning is always depends on the listener.

    Or I'm just an idiot.
    Flag SLmeowon August 09, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:My opinion of what i think Morrissey means by this "I had a really bad dream,
    It lasted 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days" is his life was shit for 20 years, 7 months and 27 days. I think he felt like this partly because he could not walk with ease on the streets where he was raised. For 20 years, 7 months and 27 days he felt he did not fit in and had never loved anyone or "had anyone ever." But after 20 years, 7 months and 27 days of a bad life he finally met someone he loved and was desperate for.
    "Now I'm outside your house, I'm alone, And I'm outside your house, I hate to intrude" He's outside the house of the person he loves and he still feels alone. And i believe the " I hate to intrude" bit means whoever he or she is that Morrissey love's does not love him back and does not want him there.
    Flag drummer55on August 23, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Correct; the date would be January 18, 1980. Not really sure what he was doing around then. In 1978 he had his stint with The Nosebleeds (prev. Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds) where I believe some material may or may not have been recorded. There was also Slaughter & the Dogs, which I can't quite recall whether or not this was before or after Nosebleeds. I do know that in 1978 he had recorded some tracks with them, possibly in 1979 as well, but I don't see that dragging into 1980. I really need to read more biographies and just general facts to get my records straight. IMO, it's probably some grey area along the way. Billy Duffy actually introduced Johnny Marr (and Rourke, I believe, simultaneously, according to a Rogan biography) to him in I would imagine late 1981. I say this because the Smiths were formed in early 1982. I'd imagine some jamming/practice/compatibility shit would have taken place a little bit before then. Maybe it could have taken 2 years for them to call themselves a band? Probably not, but, hrm...

    It's all up in the air! That's Morrissey for you!
    Flag surewhynot9144on February 06, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Hmm,
    I can't help seeing this as a song about a ghost.
    Morrissey may say all he wants, his text is there.
    He never shows all of his cards so...

    There is clearly a stalking scene here: I'm alone and I'm ouside your house,
    I hate to intrude... Listen to it, it's like he's haunting, it's really scary in my opinion.

    If the dream "lasted" 20 years etc, linguistically spoken, it has now ended.
    Which could point at suicide, if the bad dream is an image for life itself and death
    is waking up relieved. He just turns in upside down.
    Flag Duffoon August 15, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:"On The Queen Is Dead, 'Never Had No One Ever', there's a line that goes 'When you walk without ease/on these/the very streets where you were raised/I had a really bad dream/it lasted 20 years, seven months and 27 days/Never had no one ever'. It was the frustration that I felt at the age of 20 when I still didn't feel easy walking around the streets on which I'd been born, where all my family had lived - they're originally from Ireland but had been here since the Fifties. It was a constant confusion to me why I never really felt 'This is my patch. This is my home. I know these people. I can do what I like, because this is mine.' It never was. I could never walk easily."

    - Morrissey, Melody Maker, September 27, 1986
    Flag irinakimon May 14, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:as the people above i also enjoy replacing my own date insted of morrissey's
    but seriousyni love this song.
    simply being lost,lonely,isolated.
    && agreed over half of the smiths songs are written for me

    <33
    Flag shakelly_blackmouthon April 11, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:someone who just wants to be loved. i understand morrissey
    Flag krollisasexyhoeon February 08, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:It lasted 24 years , 8 months, and 23 days....
    and I never had no one ever
    Flag voodoodollyon September 04, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:"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.
    Flag TedBon August 12, 2008   Link
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    General Comment: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".
    Flag popmycultureon April 07, 2008   Link

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