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Artist: Morrissey
Canonical path: /morrissey/smiler-with-knife
Related lyric paths: 6
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Smiler With Knife
Read Smiler With Knife lyrics by Morrissey on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Smiler With Knife
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See in me the side of you
That sometimes makes you jump with fright
Smiler with knife it's your big night
Sinking bed all warm and clean
Only sadness waits for me
Smiler with knife you're just in time
You're just in time
Press the blade against my skin
Never to make love again
Smiler with knife it's alright
Surrender will I am before you
I am sick to death of life
Smiler with knife alight
Alight
If such things weren't meant to be
Then they would never come to me
Smiler, oh, don't worry so
Slamming one shots, gentle pain
Someone calling out my name
Sex and love are not the same
Are not the same
Time has frittered long and slow
All I am and was will go
But where to and why now?
When my last breath falls away
Smiler, trust me when I say
"You'll be ok"
"You'll be ok"
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Morrissey performs "Smiler With Knife", and this lyric page sits inside the Morrissey catalog on LyroVerse.
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