Lyrics

live — 80 Smiths + 261 Morrissey notes recovered from PJLM (Internet Archive)

This section holds lyric notes only: short attributed annotations, contextual commentary, attribution chains, and source linkage. Full lyric bodies from third-party rights holders are not republished here. The lyric-note record schema lives in content/lyrics/README.md.

The lyric index is split by primary artist. Within each group, the listing is alphabetical. PJLM-authoritative entries are marked with a primary badge; entries derived from secondary candidate sources carry a secondary badge until conflict review resolves them.

No full lyric bodies. Lyric pages on Maudlin Street carry attributed excerpts, songwriter and publisher credits, performance context, and source citations. The full text of a song is never reproduced. Cover-source notations (for songs The Smiths or Morrissey covered from another artist) are preserved in square brackets per PJLM convention.

Smiths lyrics

Lyric notes for The Smiths' studio catalogue and known additional songs. 80 entries, alphabetical by title.

(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame [Elvis Presley] primary
(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I [Elvis Presley] primary
Accept Yourself primary
Ask primary
Asleep primary
Back To The Old House primary
Barbarism Begins At Home primary
Bigmouth Strikes Again primary
Boy With The Thorn In His Side, The primary
Cemetry Gates primary
Death At One's Elbow primary
Death Of A Disco Dancer primary
Don't Blow Your Own Horn primary
Draize Train, The primary
Frankly, Mr. Shankly primary
Girl Afraid primary
Girlfriend In A Coma primary
Golden Lights [Twinkle] primary
Half A Person primary
Hand In Glove primary
Hand That Rocks The Cradle primary
Handsome Devil primary
Headmaster Ritual, The primary
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now primary
How Soon Is Now? primary
I Don't Owe You Anything primary
I Keep Mine Hidden primary
I Know It's Over primary
I Misses You primary
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish primary
I Want A Boy For My Birthday [The Cookies] primary
I Want The One I Can't Have primary
I Won't Share You primary
Is It Really So Strange? primary
Jeane primary
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me primary
London primary
Matter Of Opinion, A primary
Meat Is Murder primary
Miserable Lie primary
Money Changes Everything primary
Never Had No One Ever primary
Nowhere Fast primary
Oscillate Wildly primary
Paint A Vulgar Picture primary
Panic primary
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want primary
Pretty Girls Make Graves primary
Reel Around The Fountain primary
Rubber Ring primary
Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours, A primary
Rusholme Ruffians primary
Shakespeare's Sister primary
Sheila Take A Bow primary
Shoplifters Of The World Unite primary
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others primary
Still Ill primary
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before primary
Stretch Out And Wait primary
Suffer Little Children primary
Sweet And Tender Hooligan primary
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore primary
The Queen Is Dead primary
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out primary
These Things Take Time primary
This Charming Man primary
This Night Has Opened My Eyes primary
Unhappy Birthday primary
Unloveable primary
Vicar In A Tutu primary
Well I Wonder primary
What Difference Does It Make? primary
What Do You See In Him? primary
What She Said primary
What's The World [James] primary
William, It Was Really Nothing primary
Wonderful Woman primary
Work Is A Four Letter Word [Cilla Black] primary
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby primary
You've Got Everything Now primary

Morrissey lyrics

Lyric notes for Morrissey's solo catalogue. 261 entries, alphabetical by title.

(I'm) The End Of The Family Line primary
Action Is My Middle Name primary
All The Lazy Dykes primary
All You Need Is Me primary
Alma Matters primary
Alsatian Cousin primary
Ambitious Outsiders primary
America Is Not The World primary
Ammunition primary
Angel, Angel, Down We Go Together primary
Art-hounds primary
Asian Rut primary
Ask [The Smiths] primary
At Amber primary
At Last I Am Born primary
Because Of My Poor Education primary
Bed Took Fire, The primary
Bengali In Platforms primary
Best Friend On The Payroll primary
Bigmouth Strikes Again [The Smiths] primary
Billy Budd primary
Black Cloud primary
Black Eyed Susan primary
Born To Hang primary
Boxers primary
Boy Racer, The primary
Boy With The Thorn In His Side, The [The Smiths] primary
Break Up The Family primary
Bullfighter Dies, The primary
Cemetry Gates [The Smiths] primary
Certain People I Know primary
Children In Pieces primary
Christian Dior primary
Come Back To Camden primary
Cosmic Dancer [T-Rex] primary
Dagenham Dave primary
Dear God Please Help Me primary
Death At One's Elbow [The Smiths] primary
Death Of A Disco Dancer [The Smiths] primary
Dial-A-Cliché primary
Disappointed primary
Do Your Best And Don't Worry primary
Don't Make Fun Of Daddy's Voice primary
Drag The River primary
Drive-In Saturday [David Bowie] primary
Driving Your Girlfriend Home primary
Earth Is The Loneliest Planet primary
East West primary
Edges Are No Longer Parallel, The primary
Everyday Is Like Sunday primary
Fantastic Bird primary
Father Who Must Be Killed, The primary
First Of The Gang To Die primary
Forgive Someone primary
Found Found Found primary
Friday Mourning primary
Ganglord primary
Get Off The Stage primary
Girl Least Likely To primary
Girlfriend In A Coma [The Smiths] primary
Glamorous Glue primary
Glass Menagerie primary
Good Looking Man About Town primary
Hairdresser On Fire primary
Half A Person [The Smiths] primary
Hand In Glove [The Smiths] primary
Happy Lovers At Last United primary
Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye, The primary
Have-A-Go Merchant primary
He Cried primary
He Knows I'd Love To See Him primary
Headmaster Ritual, The [The Smiths] primary
Heir Apparent primary
Hold On To Your Friends primary
Honey You Know Where To Find Me primary
How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel primary
How Soon Is Now? [The Smiths] primary
Human Being [The New York Dolls] primary
I Am Hated For Loving primary
I Am Two People primary
I Can Have Both primary
I Don't Mind If You Forget Me primary
I Have Forgiven Jesus primary
I Just Want To See The Boy Happy primary
I Keep Mine Hidden [The Smiths] primary
I Knew I Was Next primary
I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday primary
I Know It's Over [The Smiths] primary
I Know Very Well How I Got My Name primary
I Like You primary
I Want The One I Can't Have [The Smiths] primary
I Will See You In Far Off Places primary
I'd Love To primary
I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now primary
I'm Not A Man primary
I'm Not Sorry primary
I'm OK By Myself primary
I'm Playing Easy To Get primary
I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris primary
I've Changed My Plea To Guilty primary
If You Don't Like Me, Don't Look At Me primary
In The Future When All's Well primary
Interesting Drug primary
Interlude [Timi Yuro] primary
Irish Blood, English Heart primary
Is It Really So Strange? [The Smiths] primary
Istanbul primary
It's Hard To Walk Tall When You're Small primary
It's Not Your Birthday Anymore primary
Jack The Ripper primary
Journalists Who Lie primary
Julie In The Weeds primary
Kick The Bride Down The Aisle primary
Kid's A Looker, The primary
King Leer primary
Kiss Me A Lot primary
Kit primary
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me [The Smiths] primary
Last Of The Famous International Playboys, The primary
Late Night, Maudlin Street primary
Lazy Sunbathers, The primary
Let Me Kiss You primary
Let The Right One Slip In primary
Life Is A Pigsty primary
Lifeguard On Duty primary
Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning primary
Little Man, What Now? primary
London [The Smiths] primary
Loop, The primary
Lost primary
Lucky Lisp primary
Maladjusted primary
Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed primary
Margaret On The Guillotine primary
Meat Is Murder [The Smiths] primary
Mexico primary
Michael's Bones primary
Moon Over Kentucky [Sparks] primary
Moonriver [Henry Mancini] primary
More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get, The primary
Mountjoy primary
Munich Air Disaster 1958 primary
Mute Witness primary
My Dearest Love primary
My Insatiable One [Suede] primary
My Life Is A Succession Of People Saying Goodbye primary
My Love Life primary
National Front Disco, The primary
Neal Cassady Drops Dead primary
Never Played Symphonies, The primary
No One Can Hold A Candle To You [Raymonde] primary
Nobody Loves Us primary
Noise Is The Best Revenge primary
Nothing Rhymed [Gilbert O'Sullivan] primary
November Spawned A Monster primary
Now I Am A Was primary
Now My Heart Is Full primary
Nowhere Fast [The Smiths] primary
Oboe Concerto primary
Oh Phoney primary
Oh Well I'll Never Learn primary
On The Streets I Ran primary
One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell primary
One Of Our Own primary
Operation, The primary
Ordinary Boys, The primary
Ouija Board, Ouija Board primary
Our Frank primary
Paint A Vulgar Picture [The Smiths] primary
Panic [The Smiths] primary
Papa Jack primary
Pashernate Love primary
People Are The Same Everywhere primary
Piccadilly Palare primary
Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness primary
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want [The Smiths] primary
Pregnant For The Last Time primary
Public Image, The primary
Queen Is Dead, The [The Smiths] primary
Reader Meet Author primary
Redondo Beach [Patti Smith] primary
Roy's Keen primary
Rubber Ring [The Smiths] primary
Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours, A [The Smiths] primary
Safe, Warm Lancashire Home primary
Satan Rejected My Soul primary
Satellite Of Love [Lou Reed] primary
Scandinavia primary
Seasick, Yet Still Docked primary
Shakespeare's Sister [The Smiths] primary
Shame Is The Name primary
Sheila Take A Bow [The Smiths] primary
Shoplifters Of The World Unite [The Smiths] primary
Sing Your Life primary
Sister I'm A Poet primary
Skin Storm [Bradford] primary
Slum Mums, The primary
Smiler With Knife primary
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others [The Smiths] primary
Something Is Squeezing My Skull primary
Song From Under The Floorboards, A [Magazine] primary
Sorrow Will Come In The End primary
Sorry Doesn't Help primary
Southpaw primary
Speedway primary
Spring-Heeled Jim primary
Staircase At The University primary
Still Ill [The Smiths] primary
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before [The Smiths] primary
Street Life [Roxy Music] primary
Stretch Out And Wait [The Smiths] primary
Striptease With A Difference primary
Subway Train [The New York Dolls] primary
Such A Little Thing Makes Such A Big Difference primary
Suedehead primary
Sunny primary
Swallow On My Neck, A primary
Sweet And Tender Hooligan [The Smiths] primary
Sweetie-Pie primary
Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils, The primary
Teenage Dad On His Estate primary
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore [The Smiths] primary
That's Entertainment [The Jam] primary
That's How People Grow Up primary
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out [The Smiths] primary
There Speaks A True Friend primary
There's A Place In Hell For Me And My Friends primary
This Charming Man [The Smiths] primary
This Is Not Your Country primary
To Give (The Reason I Live) [Frankie Valli] primary
To Me You Are A Work Of Art primary
Tomorrow primary
Tony The Pony primary
Trash [The New York Dolls] primary
Treat Me Like A Human Being primary
Trouble Loves Me primary
Used To Be A Sweet Boy primary
Vicar In A Tutu [The Smiths] primary
We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful primary
We'll Let You Know primary
What She Said [The Smiths] primary
Whatever Happens, I Love You primary
When Last I Spoke To Carol primary
Why Don't You Find Out For Yourself primary
Wide To Receive primary
Will Never Marry primary
William, It Was Really Nothing [The Smiths] primary
World Is Full Of Crashing Bores, The primary
World Peace Is None Of Your Business primary
Yes, I Am Blind primary
You Have Killed Me primary
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby [The Smiths] primary
You Know I Couldn't Last primary
You Must Please Remember primary
You Say You Don't Love Me [The Buzzcocks] primary
You Should Have Been Nice To Me primary
You Were Good In Your Time primary
You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side primary
You're The One For Me, Fatty primary
You've Had Her primary
Youngest Was The Most Loved, The primary

Schema reference

Per-record fields (from content/lyrics/README.md): slug, song_title, attributed_to, release_id (when applicable), cover_origin (for covers — credited original artist), notes, quotes (short attributed excerpts only), source_ids, pjlm_authoritative_url, authority (primary for PJLM-derived, secondary for candidate-only).