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On - http://solarisocean.tripod.com/jack.html, a nice short article is to be found extolling the merits of Morrissey's song Jack the Ripper. In it is this observation:
"It should be noted that in the original version there are additional lyrics, a kind of whispery, distorted track which comes in after the last chorus, but it is difficult to make out the exact words of this lyric."
On Disc 3 of the 2009-released HMV 3-CD compilation of singles 1988-'95, Jack The Ripper comes third on the playlist, and it appears to be this original version that I, for one, hadn't heard before.
For the benefit of others similarly discommoded on this point, I have tried to decipher the alternative words inserted in substitute for the second chorus towards the end as in Beethoven Was Deaf, which sound to me like this:
"And no one knows a thing about my life;
I can come and go as I please.
If I want to, I can stay,
And if I want to, I can leave.
Nobody knows me,
Nobody knows me,
Nobody knows me,
Nobody knows me, oh, oh.."
The brief fade-out includes noises that light jangling chains might make. Also, I think this version is quicker and more rhythmic than the other, and in the intro, the beat is abetted by drip-like notes in different keys, something similar to that in the accompaniment of Tina Turner's song, I Can't Stand The Rain.
The whole effect is possibly more spooky and malevolent, strengthening the sense of an evil character voicing their security of movement, comparable to Ambitious Outsiders.
"It should be noted that in the original version there are additional lyrics, a kind of whispery, distorted track which comes in after the last chorus, but it is difficult to make out the exact words of this lyric."
On Disc 3 of the 2009-released HMV 3-CD compilation of singles 1988-'95, Jack The Ripper comes third on the playlist, and it appears to be this original version that I, for one, hadn't heard before.
For the benefit of others similarly discommoded on this point, I have tried to decipher the alternative words inserted in substitute for the second chorus towards the end as in Beethoven Was Deaf, which sound to me like this:
"And no one knows a thing about my life;
I can come and go as I please.
If I want to, I can stay,
And if I want to, I can leave.
Nobody knows me,
Nobody knows me,
Nobody knows me,
Nobody knows me, oh, oh.."
The brief fade-out includes noises that light jangling chains might make. Also, I think this version is quicker and more rhythmic than the other, and in the intro, the beat is abetted by drip-like notes in different keys, something similar to that in the accompaniment of Tina Turner's song, I Can't Stand The Rain.
The whole effect is possibly more spooky and malevolent, strengthening the sense of an evil character voicing their security of movement, comparable to Ambitious Outsiders.
