Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song You Know I Couldn't Last , by - Morrissey. Release date: 02.05.2004
Song language: English
You Know I Couldn't Last |
| The whispering, May hurt you, But the printed word might kill you |
| The whispering, May hurt you, But the printed word might kill you |
| So don’t let the blue, The blue eyes fool you |
| They’re just gelignite, Loaded and aiming right between your eyes |
| CDs and T-shirts, promos and God knows, You know I couldn’t last, Someone please |
| take me home |
| The teenagers, Who love you, They will wake up, yawn and kill you |
| The teenagers, Who love you, They will wake up, yawn and kill you |
| So don’t let the blue, The blue eyes fool you |
| They’re just gelignite, Loaded and aiming right between your eyes |
| CDs and T-shirts, promos and God knows |
| You know I couldn’t last, Someone please take me home |
| There’s a cash register ringing and |
| It weighs so heavy on my back, Someone please take me home |
| The critics who, Can’t break you |
| They somehow help to make you |
| The critics who, Can’t break you, Unwittingly they make you |
| So don’t let the good days, Of the gold discs, Creep up and mug you |
| With evil legal eagles, You know I couldn’t last, Accountants rampant, You know |
| I couldn’t last |
| Every -ist and every -ism, Thrown my way to stay, And the northern leeches go |
| on, Removing, removing, removing |
| Then in the end, Your royalties bring you luxuries, Your royalties bring you |
| luxuries, Oh but |
| The squalor of the mind, The squalor of the mind, The squalor of the mind, The |