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Miserable Lie

Miserable Lie lyrics by The Smiths. 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...

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Miserable Lie

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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 humor 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, but twice

You have corrupt my innocent mind

Not once, but twice

I know the wind-swept mystical air

It means: I'd like to see your underwear

I recognize that 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

So take me when you go

Oh oh, oh

Take me when you go

Oh oh, oh

I need advice, I need advice

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