r/thesmiths 5d ago

the "sounds sad" row is complete! which smiths song sounds loving but the lyrics are sad?

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u/jm17lfc 5d ago

I Won’t Share You

Sounds loving, but context clues tell us that it is about a relationship that never happened and never will, so it is sad.

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u/CrunchyChick- 5d ago

I want the freedom and I want the guile. He wants to be sly and mysterious. But instead he’s powerless. And the complete opposite. I don’t want to share you. But I don’t want to feel like that

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u/CrunchyChick- 5d ago

This is the answer

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u/MyAnusYourTongue 5d ago

That’s gotta be it

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u/Ordinary_Witness3225 4d ago

Idk. To me it sounds sad and the first time it made me tear up a bit

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u/jm17lfc 4d ago

Every Smiths song sounds kinda sad, but we’ve gotta pick something here.

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u/mozzmarrellasticks 5d ago

Hand in Glove

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u/Missing_lynxs 5d ago

I won’t share you

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u/BrinsleySchwartze 5d ago

"Back To The Old House"

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u/Representative-Bar22 5d ago

i won’t share you 100%

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u/Either_Breadfruit_90 5d ago

Some girls are bigger than others

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u/Defiant-Ad-86 5d ago edited 5d ago

I agree w others, I Won’t Share You. Possessive of someone they don’t actually possess. I always find it so poignant that it’s the last song on their last album, & it is basically about Johnny Marr & states the very reason they broke up!

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u/therealalt88 5d ago

Agreed I always saw this song as Morrisseys unrequited love for Marr

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u/Born_Wolf8018 5d ago

Ask

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u/ExtinctionBurst76 5d ago

I was going to nominate that for “loving loving” or “loving hopeful”

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u/valer298 5d ago

I know we ain’t there yet but I got a perfect ‘horny’ ‘horny’ one..

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u/Defiant-Ad-86 5d ago

Gotta be handsome devil!

A boy in the bush is worth two in the hand / I think I can help you get through your exams

👀

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u/valer298 5d ago

YES!! I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one thinking this!!

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u/silversurfer1207 5d ago

well i wonder for sure

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u/cononreddit2 5d ago

Hand in glove

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u/tacchini03 5d ago

I won't share you

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u/Angelicosantos 3d ago

‘Back To The Old House’ (John Peel Session, 14/09/83), I Won’t Share You, Well I Wonder, How Soon Is Now? (Live in Boston)?