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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr
Guitar
Morrissey
Morrissey
Vocals
Andy Rourke
Andy Rourke
Bass Guitar
Mike Joyce
Mike Joyce
Drums
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr
Composer
Morrissey
Morrissey
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Phil Bush
Phil Bush
Engineer
John Porter
John Porter
Producer
Neill King
Neill King
Engineer
Tim Young
Tim Young
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

So, goodbye
Please stay with your own kind
And I'll stay with mine
There's something against us
It's not time, it's not time
So, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
I know I need hardly say
How much I love your casual way
Oh, but please put your tongue away
A little higher and we're well away
The dark nights are drawing in
And your humour is as black as them
I look at yours, you laugh at mine
And love is just a miserable lie
You have destroyed my flower-like life
Not once, twice
You have corrupt my innocent mind
Not once, twice
I know the wind-swept mystical air
It means I'd like to see your underwear
I recognise that mystical air
It means I'd like to seize your underwear
What do we get for our trouble and pain?
Just a rented room in Whalley Range
What do we get for our trouble and pain?
Whalley Range
Into the depths of the criminal world
I followed her
[Instrumental]
I need advice, I need advice
I need advice, I need advice
'Cause nobody ever looks at me twice
Nobody ever looks at me twice
[Instrumental]
I'm just a country-mile behind
The world
I'm just a country-mile behind
The whole world
Oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh
[Instrumental]
I'm just a country-mile behind
The world
I'm just a country-mile behind
The whole world
Oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh
[Instrumental]
Take me when you go, oh
Oh, oh, woo
[Instrumental]
Take me when you go, oh
Oh, oh, woo
[Instrumental]
I need advice, I need advice
Written by: Johnny Marr, Morrissey

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