I've Changed My Plea To Guilty
| MORRISSEY song | |
|---|---|
| Name | I've Changed My Plea To Guilty |
| Album/single | My Love Life |
| Length | 3:42 |
| Writer/composer | Morrissey / Mark E. Nevin |
| Producer | Clive Langer Alan Winstanley |
| Release | 17 September 1991 |
| Recorded | Circa 1990-1991 |
Information
Excerpt from Mozipedia
Perhaps his finest collaboration with Mark Nevin, ‘I’ve Changed My Plea To Guilty’ is, furthermore, one of the greatest tracks in Morrissey’s entire catalogue. At the time, he seemed to agree, telling one interviewer in all sincerity it was ‘the best song, in my mind, that I have recorded’.
...Modelled on his home demo, Nevin constructed the opening and closing sound collage using samples of country singer Skeeter Davis’s 1963 hit ‘The End Of The World’ alongside Dictaphone recordings of a waitress friend from Minneapolis called Suzy Solan.
Lyrics
I'm standing in the dock
With my innocent hand on my heart
I've changed my plea
I've changed my plea to guilty
Because freedom is wasted on me
See how your rules spoil the game?
Outside there is a pain
Emotional air raids exhausted my heart
And it's safer to be inside
So, I'm changing my plea
And no one can dissuade me
Because freedom is wasted on me
See how your rules spoil the game?
Something I have learned
If there is one thing in life I've observed
It's that everybody's got somebody
Oh no, not me
So I've changed my plea to guilty
And reason and freedom is a waste
It's a lot like life
Music Video
Credits
- Performed on the Jonathan Ross TV show, 1990
Live History
Play count (Morrissey concert): 77
Morrissey live history:
- Dublin, Ireland 1991-04-27 (Morrissey concert)
- Paris, France 1991-04-29 (Morrissey concert)
- Deinze, Belgium 1991-04-30 (Morrissey concert)
- Utrecht, Holland 1991-05-01 (Morrissey concert)
- Blackburn, England 1991-07-26 (Morrissey concert)
- Fukuoka, Japan 1991-08-27 (Morrissey concert)
- Osaka, Japan 1991-08-28 (Morrissey concert)
- Dublin, Ireland 1991-09-29 (Morrissey concert)
- Hanley, England 1991-10-01 (Morrissey concert)
- Kilburn, England 1991-10-03 (Morrissey concert)
Appears On
- Viva Hate
- My Love Life (single)
- We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful (single)
- My Early Burglary Years
- The CD Singles '91–95'
- The HMV/Parlophone Singles '88–'95
- Very Best Of Morrissey
Cover Versions
Related Forum Threads
- Morrissey A-Z: "I've Changed My Plea To Guilty" - Morrissey-solo (May 05, 2021)