“The Smiths” tribute site and gig guide

This Night Has Opened My Eyes
Footage and Lyrics
Derby Assembly Rooms

This Night Has Opened My Eyes
In a river the colour of lead
emerse the baby’s head
wrap her up in the News Of The World
dump her on a doorstep, girl
and I will never sleep again
You kicked and cried like a bullied child
a grown man of twenty-five
he said he’d [...]

Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
Footage and Lyrics
Versailles.

Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
but heaven knows I’m miserable now
I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
and heaven knows I’m miserable now
In my life
why do I give valuable time
to people who don’t care if [...]

Handsome Devil
Footage and Lyrics

Handsome Devil
All the streets are crammed whit things
eager to be held
I know what hands are for
and I’d like to help myself
you ask me the time
but I sense something more
and I would like to give you
what I think you asking for
you handsome devil
you handsome devil
Let me get my hands
on your mammary glands
let me [...]

How Soon Is Now?
Footage and Lyrics

How Soon Is Now?
I am the son
and the heir
of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
I am the [...]

There is a light that never goes out

Footage and Lyrics
Salford 86

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
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 [...]

These Things Take Time

Footage and Lyrics
The Smiths “These Things Take Time” live from the Hacienda, Manchester

These Things Take Time
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wunderkind
you took me behind a dis-used railway line
and said “I know a place where we can go
Where we are not known”
and then you gave [...]

You’ve Got Everything Now

Footage and Lyrics
You’ve Got Everything Now - Live at the Hacienda, Manchester, 6 July 1983

You’ve Got Everything Now
As merry as the days were long
I was right and you were wrong
back at the old grey school
I would win and you would lose
but you’ve got everything now
you’ve got everything [...]

William, It Was Really Nothing

Footage and Lyrics
The Smiths live in concert in Madrid

William, It Was Really Nothing
The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, no, and everybody’s got to live their life [...]

What Difference Does It Make?

Footage and Lyrics
The Hacienda, Manchester

What Difference Does It Make?
All men have secrets and here is mine
so let it be known
we have been through hell and high tide,
I can surely rely on you?
And yet you start to recoil
heavy words are so lightly thrown
but still I’d leap [...]

This Charming Man

Footage and Lyrics
The Smiths “This Charming Man” live from Versailles, France, December 1 1984

This Charming Man
Punctured bicycle
on a hillside desolate
will Nature make a man of me yet?
When in this charming car
this charming man
Why pamper life’s complexities
when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?
I would go [...]