The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

Here’s an oldie but a goodie for y’all; I can say “y’all” now because I’m in the U.S., vacationing in palm springs.  Finding myself in a town that is desolate of anyone younger than 25, I decided to keep with the elderly theme and share a gem from The SmithsThe Smiths reviews.  Originally featured on the band’s 1986 album The Queen is DeadThe Queen Is Dead reviews, There Is a Light That Never Goes OutThere Is a Light That Never Goes Out reviews was not officially released as a single until 1992, after The Smiths had already split up.  The album itself was released to much critical acclaim, eventually landing at the #216 spot on Rolling StoneRolling Stone reviews’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and at #6 on Pitchfork Media’s best albums of the 1980s.  

Take me out tonight
where there’s music and there’s people
who are young and alive
driving in your car
I never never want to go home
because I haven’t got one anymore

Take me out tonight
because I want to see people
and I want to see life
driving in your car
oh please don’t drop me home
because it’s not my home, it’s their home
and I’m welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
crashes in to us
to die by your side
is such a heavenly way to die
and if a ten ton truck
kills the both of us
to die by your side
well the pleasure, the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
take me anywhere, I don’t care
I don’t care, I don’t care
and in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
but then a strange fear gripped me
and I just couldn’t ask

Take me out tonight
oh take me anywhere, I don’t care
I don’t care, I don’t care
driving in your car
I never never want to go home
because I haven’t got one
no, I haven’t got one

And if a double-decker bus
crashes in to us
to die by your side
is such a heavenly way to die
and if a ten ton truck
kills the both of us
to die by your side
well the pleasure, the privilege is mine

There is a light that never goes out
There is a light that never goes out
There is a light that never goes out
There is a light that never goes out

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