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[[File: | [[File:The queen is dead single sleeve.jpg | thumb | right | Cover art]] | ||
{| | {{Discobox | ||
| Name = The Queen Is Dead | |||
| | | Total Length = 6:24 (Album version)<br>6:06 (No Intro)<br>7:29 (Demo)<br>3:36 (Instrumental demo) | ||
| | | Recorded = Winter 1985 | ||
| | | Writer = Morrissey/Marr | ||
| | | Producer = [[Morrissey]]<br>[[Johnny Marr]] | ||
| | | Mastered = | ||
| | | Art = Cover star: [[Margherita Caruso]] in "[[Il vangelo secondo Matteo]]" (1964) | ||
| Vinyl Etching = None | |||
| Publisher = [[Warner Bros. Records]] | |||
| Format = 7" Vinyl, 12" Vinyl | |||
| Release = June 1986, 16 June 2017 (single to mark 31st anniversary of [[The Queen Is Dead]] album release and 2017 re-issue) | |||
| Chart = UK #85<br>UK Vinyl Chart #1 | |||
| Type = Single | |||
| ArtistType = The Smiths | |||
| Previous = The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (Demo Mix) | |||
| PreviousLink = The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (single) | |||
| Next = | |||
| NextLink = | |||
}} | }} | ||
[[Category:The Smiths Lyrics]] | |||
[[Category:The Smiths Lyrics]] | |||
==Information== | ==Information== | ||
* An unedited version of this song appears on [[The Smiths – Unreleased Demos & Instrumentals (LP bootleg)|The Smiths – Unreleased Demos & Instrumentals]] bootleg LP. | |||
==Track list== | |||
===7" Vinyl Picture Disc=== | |||
UK & Europe - [Warner Music UK Ltd. – QID2017] | |||
{{tracklist | |||
| 01 = The Queen Is Dead | |||
| 01link = The Queen Is Dead (single) | |||
| 01-duration = 6:05 (Morrissey/Marr) | |||
| 02 = I Keep Mine Hidden | |||
| 02link = I Keep Mine Hidden | |||
| 02-duration = 1:57 (Morrissey/Marr) | |||
}} | |||
===12" Vinyl=== | |||
UK & Europe - [Warner Bros. Records – 12QID2017] | |||
{{tracklist | |||
| 01 = The Queen Is Dead | |||
| 01link = The Queen Is Dead (single) | |||
| 01-duration = 6:05 (Morrissey/Marr) | |||
| 02 = Oscillate Wildly | |||
| 02link = Oscillate Wildly | |||
| 02-duration = 3:26 (Morrissey/Marr) | |||
| 03 = Money Changes Everything | |||
| 03link = Money Changes Everything | |||
| 03-duration = 4:10 (Marr) | |||
| 04 = The Draize Train | |||
| 04link = The Draize Train | |||
| 04-duration = 5:08 (Marr) | |||
}} | |||
==Video== | |||
<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3UMjNUqFM</youtube> | |||
* A Film by [[Derek Jarman]] | |||
== Lyrics == | == Lyrics == | ||
<poem> | |||
Oh! Take me back to dear old Blighty, | |||
Put me on the train for London Town, | |||
Take me anywhere, | |||
Drop me anywhere, | |||
Liverpool, Leeds or Birmingham | |||
'Cause I don't care, | |||
I should like to see my... | |||
By land, by sea. | |||
Farewell... to this land's cheerless marshes | |||
Hemmed in like a boar between archers1 | |||
Her very Lowness with her head in a sling | |||
I'm truely sorry but it sounds like a wonderful thing | |||
"I say, Charles, don't you ever crave | |||
To appear on the front of the Daily Mail | |||
Dressed in your Mother's bridal veil?" | |||
And so I checked all the registered historical facts | |||
And I was shocked into shame to discover | |||
How I'm the 18th pale descendent | |||
Of some old queen or other | |||
Oh has the world changed or have I changed? | |||
Oh has the world changed or have I changed? | |||
As some 9-year old tough who peddles drugs | |||
(I swear to God, I swear) | |||
I never even knew what drugs were | |||
So I broke into the Palace | |||
With a sponge and a rusty spanner | |||
She said: "Eh, I know and you cannot sing!" | |||
I said: "That's nothing, you should hear me play piano!" | |||
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry | |||
And talk about precious things | |||
But when you're tied to your Mother's apron | |||
No one talks about castration | |||
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry | |||
And talk about precious things | |||
Like Love and Law and Poverty | |||
These are the things that kill me | |||
We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry | |||
And talk about precious things | |||
But the rain that flattens my hair | |||
These are the things that kill me | |||
All their life, they make love and then pierce through me | |||
Pass the Pub who saps your body | |||
And the church who'll snatch your money | |||
The Queen is dead, boys | |||
And it's so lonely on a limb | |||
Pass the Pub that wrecks your body | |||
And the church - all they want is your money | |||
The Queen is dead, boys | |||
And it's so lonely on a limb | |||
Life is very long when you're lonely | |||
Life is very long when you're lonely | |||
Life is very long when you're lonely | |||
Life is very long when you're lonely | |||
</poem> | |||
== | {{CommonSongSections | Artist = The Smiths | Song = {{#replace:{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}| (single)|}}| (song)|}}}} | ||
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|DiscogsReleaseId=9958556 | |||
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{{PageDate | |||
|Date=2017-06-16 | |||
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