This is Miserable Lie

There are often times that lyrics to a song(s) literally express how one either feels or relates to what one is experiencing. I am certain many people have a song or two or even a list they can apply to or relate to what they are either experiencing/facing or have gone through. Some songs may just be the tone or tune that express the emotion felt or others just the lyrics alone but there are those times too that a song is a perfect harmonious tone, tune and lyrics that really speaks to us and expresses what or how we feel clearly.

This song, to me, speaks about how the word "LOVE" can easily be a miserable lie. That whom we say we love can easily crush us and at times not only once but often times more than once. And so the best thing to do is say goodbye and go on each's separate ways. Near the end of the song it is an intense cry for advice. "I need advice, I need advice" he cries out as often times when extremely devastated over a loved one we cry out for advice, for any kind of advice, that can help us get through or momentarily ease our pain. But then again, no one cares to hear our cry and never looks at us twice.

The song is "Miserable Lie" by The Smiths from their album The Smiths This album has other great songs such as "Pretty Girls Make Graves", "What Difference Does It Make", "Hand Glove", "Still Ill"...well pretty much the entire album. HAHA. Anyhow, enjoy the song and lyrics are included below.



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 recognize that mystical air
It means : I'd like to see your underwear
I know the wind-swept 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