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Artist: Morrissey
Canonical path: /morrissey/mountjoy
Related lyric paths: 6
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Mountjoy
Read Mountjoy lyrics by Morrissey on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Mountjoy
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The joy brings many things
It cannot bring you joy
Sons of mothers huddle here
Men and boys
1850 swung the doors
And human sewage swept inside
Where victims speak in whines
And where the hardened cried
I was sent here by a 3 foot half-wit in a wig
I took his insults on the chin,
and never did I flinch
A swagger hides the fear in here
By this rule we breathe
And there is no one on this earth
Who I’d feel sad to leave
You see we all lose
We all lose
What those in power do to you
Reminds us at a glance
How humans hate each others’s guts
And show it given a chance
We never say aloud the things
That we say in our prayers
Cause no one cares
Many executed here
By the awful lawfully good
But the only thing that makes me cry
Is when I see the sky
Bredan Behan laughter rings
For what he had or hadn’t done
Because he knew then as I know now
That for each and every one of us:
We all lose
Rich or poor, we all lose
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Morrissey performs "Mountjoy", and this lyric page sits inside the Morrissey catalog on LyroVerse.
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