The Smiths - Cemetry Gates Lyrics

Lyrics Cemetry Gates - The Smiths



A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people, all those lives
Where are they now?
With loves and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived
And then they died
Seems so unfair
I want to cry
You say: "Ere thrice the sun hath done
Salutation to the dawn"
And you claim these words as your own
But I′ve read well and I've heard them said
A hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
If you must write prose or poems
The words you use should be your own
Don′t plagiarise or take 'on loan'
There′s always someone, somewhere
With a big nose who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall
Who′ll trip you up and laugh
When you fall
You say: "Ere long done do does did"
Words which could only be your own
And then produce the text
From whence was ripped
'Some dizzy whore′, 1804
A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we′re happy
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Oh Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we′re wanted
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
But you lose
'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine
Sure!



Writer(s): Steven Morrissey, Johnny Marr


The Smiths - The Sound of The Smiths (Deluxe)
Album The Sound of The Smiths (Deluxe)
date of release
10-11-2008

1 Hand In Glove
2 This Charming Man
3 What Difference Does It Make? (Peel Session - BBC)
4 Still Ill
5 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
6 William, It Was Really Nothing
7 How Soon Is Now?
8 Nowhere Fast
9 Barbarism Begins At Home [7" Version]
10 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
11 The Headmaster Ritual
12 The Boy With the Thorn In His Side
13 Rubber Ring
14 Bigmouth Strikes Again
15 There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
16 Panic
17 The Draize Train
18 Ask
19 You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby
20 Shoplifters of the World Unite
21 Sheila Take a Bow
22 Girlfriend In a Coma
23 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
24 Jeane
25 Handsome Devil [Live at Manchester Hacienda 4/2/83]
26 This Charming Man (New York Vocal)
27 Wonderful Woman
28 Back To the Old House
29 These Things Take Time
30 Girl Afraid
31 Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
32 Stretch Out and Wait
33 Oscillate Wildly
34 Meat Is Murder [Live at Oxford Apollo 18/3/85]
35 Asleep
36 Money Changes Everything
37 The Queen Is Dead / Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty (Medley)
38 Vicar In a Tutu
39 Cemetry Gates
40 Half A Person
41 Sweet and Tender Hooligan (John Peel Session, 12/2/86)
42 Pretty Girls Make Graves (Troy Tate Version)
43 Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
44 What's the World? (Live at The Barrowlands, Glasgow, 25/9/85)
45 London (Live In London, 1986)
46 The Queen Is Dead - A Film by Derek Jarman




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