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Rating: Every time I listen to it, it's like the first time.
This is my favorite song by the Smiths, and what I love is the spontaneity of Moz's admission of sadness:
Driving in your car, I never want to go home,
because I haven't got one... anymore.
I like it when in the lyrics the car is used as a means to escape from troubles and melancholy, just like in another song I love, which is The Next Life by Suede:
Stars in our own car, we can drive away from here.
It's not just a car ride.
It's the attempt to escape, to get in and lock the doors.
Having the courage to say: take me away, anywhere you want, but away from here.
And yes, it's courageous to ask for help sometimes.
Here Morrissey, with his usual dose of irony, also adds a:
And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.
There isn't a single thing I dislike about this song.
I love the chords, the ending with Steven repeating:
There is a light that never goes out.
It gave me so much with just one phrase and 4 chords.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 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 want to see people
And I want to see lights
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 into 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..
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..
Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Oh I haven't got one
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into 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
02 Half a Person ()
Call me morbid, call me pale
I've spent six years on your trail
Six long years on your trail
Call me morbid, call me pale
I've spent six years on your trail
Six full years of my life
On your trail
And if you have five seconds to spare
Then I'll tell you the story of my life:
Sixteen, clumsy and shy
I went to London and I
I booked myself in at Y.W.C.A.
I said: "I like it here - can I stay?
I like it here - can I stay?
Do you have a vacancy
For a back-scrubber?"
She was left behind and sour
And she wrote to me on the hour
She said: "In the days when you were
Hopelessly poor, I just liked you more.."
And if you have five seconds to spare
Then I'll tell you the story of my life:
Sixteen, clumsy and shy
I went to London and I
I booked myself in at Y.W.C.A.
I said: "I like it here - can I stay?
I like it here - can I stay?
And do you have a vacancy
For a back-scrubber?"
Call me morbid, call me pale
I've spent too long on your trail
Far too long, chasing your tail
And if you have five seconds to spare
Then I'll tell you the story of my life:
Sixteen, clumsy and shy
That's the story of my life
Sixteen, clumsy and shy
The story of my life
That's the story of my life
That's the story of my life
That's the story of my life
The story of my life
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