She lives for the written word, and people come second or possibly third.
Living longer than I had intended
I once thought that time accentuates despair, but now I don't actually care
Amidst concrete and clay and general decay, Nature must still find a way.
All of These Things Take Time.
I know it's over, and it never really began, but it my heart, it was so real.
I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice.
I smoke cause I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.
and lots more.
All of these.
In addition (for the most part, I took one from each album, otherwise I'd find it too difficult to choose):
"I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving- England is mine, and it owes me a living"
'Accept Yourself', from start to finish.
"A boy is stabbed, and his money is grabbed, and the air hangs heavy like a dulling wine"
"Take me out tonight, where there's music, and there's people, and they're young and alive"
"But to you I was faceless, I was fawning, I was boring- a child from those ugly new houses who could never begin to know..."
"I took the key from Maudlin Street- well, it's only bricks and mortar"
"The saints smile shyly down on you"
"And looking back, we will forgive- we had no choice, we always did"
"My love is as sharp as a needle in your eye. You must be such a fool to pass me by"
"Dallow, Spicer, Pinkie, Cubitt, every jammy Stressford poet. Loafing oafs in all-night chemists..." etc. That whole song is an utter masterpiece.
"Oh, have you ever escaped from a shipwrecked life?"
"Show me a barrel and watch me scrape it"
"Why did you stick me in self-deprecating bones and skin? Jesus, do you hate me?"
"Warm lights from the grand houses blind me. Haves cannot stand have-nots"
"And we will be safe and sheltered in our graves. We'll come before you, and we will kiss you, by way of one final hug, Mama"
Too many others to list. Every time I read people's lists of favourite songs or lyrics, and what they mean to them, I feel overwhelmed by Morrissey's words all over again.
