Troy Tate Sessions

The Smiths Troy Tate Sessions Lyrics
1.Handsome Devil(Tate)

All the streets are crammed with 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
What i think you're asking for
You handsome devil
Oh, you handsome devil

Let me get my hands
On your mammary gland
And let me get your head
On the conjugal bed
I say, i say, i say

I crack the whip
And you skip
But you deserve it
You deserve it

A boy in the bush
Is worth two in the hand
I think i can help you get through your exams
Oh, you handsome devil

Oh, let me get my hands
On your mammary gland
And let me get your head
On the conjugal bed
I say, i say, i say

I crack the whip
And you skip
But you deserve it
You deserve it

And when we're in your scholarly room
Who will swallow whom ?
And when we're in your scholarly room
Who will swallow whom ?
You handsome devil

Oh, let me get my hands
On your mammary gland
And let me get your head
On the conjugal bed
I say, i say, i say

There's more to life than books, you know
But not much more
Oh, there's more to life than books, you know
But not much more, not much more
Oh, you handsome devil
Oh, you handsome devil
Ow !


2.Hand In Glove(Tate)

Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds
No, it's not like any other love
This one is different - because it's us

Hand in glove
We can go wherever we please
And everything depends upon
How near you stand to me

And if the people stare
Then the people stare
Oh, i really don't know and i really don't care

Kiss my shades ... oh ...

Hand in glove
The good people laugh
Yes, we may be hidden by rags
But we've something they never have

Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds
Yes, we may be hidden by rags
But we've something they never have

And if the people stare
Then the people stare
Oh, i really don't know and i really don't care

Kiss my shades ... oh ...

So, hand in glove i stake my claim
I'll fight to the last breath

If they dare touch a hair on your head
I'll fight to the last breath

For the good life is out there somewhere
So stay on my arm, you little charmer

But i know my luck too well
Yes, i know my luck too well
And i'll probably never see you again
I'll probably never see you again
I'll probably never see you again
Oh ...


3.I Don't Owe You Anything(Tate)

Bought on stolen wine
A nod was the first step
You knew very well
What was coming next

Bought on stolen wine
A nod was the first step
You knew very well
What was coming next

Did i really walk all this way
Just to hear you say :
'i don't want to go out tonight' ?
'i don't want to go out tonight'

But you will
For you must

I don't owe you anything, no
But you owe me something
Repay me now

You should never go to them
Let them come to you
Just like i do
Just like i do

You should not go to them
Let them come to you
Just like i do
Just like i do

But did i really walk all this way
Just to hear you say :
'oh, i don't want to go out tonight' ?
'oh, i don't want to go out tonight'

But you will
For you must

I don't owe you anything, no
But you owe me something
Repay me now

Too freely on your lips
Words prematurely sad
Oh, but i know what will make you smile tonight

Life is never kind
Life is never kind
Oh, but i know what will make you smile tonight


4.Miserable Lie(Tate)

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 recognise that mystical air
It means : i'd like to see your underwear
I know the wind-swept mystical air
It means : i'd like to see 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 ...

I need advice, i need advice
I need advice, i need advice
Nobody ever looks at me twice
Nobody ever looks at me twice

I'm just a country-mile behind
The world

I'm just a country-mile behind
The whole world
Oh oh, oh ...

I'm just a country-mile behind
The world

I'm just a country-mile behind
The whole world
Oh oh, oh ...

Take me when you go
Oh oh, oh...

Take me when you go
Oh oh, oh ...

I need advice, i need advice


5.Pretty Girls Make Graves(Tate)

Upon the sand, upon the bay
'there is a quick and easy way' you say
Before you illustrate
I'd rather state:
'i'm not the man you think i am
I'm not the man you think i am'

And sorrow's native son
He will not smile for anyone

And pretty girls make graves
Oh ...

End of the pier, end of the bay
You tug my arm, and say : 'give in to lust,
Give up to lust, oh heaven knows we'll
Soon be dust ... '

Oh, i'm not the man you think i am
I'm not the man you think i am

And sorrow's native son
He will not rise for anyone

And pretty girls make graves
Oh really ?
Oh ...

I could have been wild and i could have
Been free
But nature played this trick on me

She wants it now
And she will not wait
But she's too rough
And i'm too delicate

Then, on the sand
Another man, he takes her hand
A smile lights up her face
(and well, it would)

I lost my faith in womanhood
I lost my faith in womanhood
I lost my faith ...
Oh ...

Hand in glove ...
The sun shines out of our behinds ...
Oh ...


6.Reel Around The Fountain(Tate)

It's time the tale were told
Of how you took a child
And you made him old

It's time the tale were told
Of how you took a child
And you made him old
You made him old

Reel around the fountain
Slap me on the patio
I'll take it now
Oh ...

Fifteen minutes with you
Well, i wouldn't say no
People said that you were virtually dead
And they were so wrong

Fifteen minutes with you
Oh, i wouldn't say no
People said that you were easily led
And they were half-right
They ... oh, they were half-right, oh

It's time the tale were told
Of how you took a child
And you made him old

It's time that the tale were told
Of how you took a child
And you made him old
You made him old

Reel around the fountain
Slap me on the patio
I'll take it now
Oh ...

Fifteen minutes with you
Well, i wouldn't say no
Oh, people see no worth in you
Oh, but i do.
Fifteen minutes with you
Oh, i wouldn't say no
Oh, people see no worth in you
I do
I ... oh, i do

I dreamt about you last night
And i fell out of bed twice
You can pin and mount me like a butterfly
But 'take me to the haven of your bed'
Was something that you never said
Two lumps, please
You're the bee's knees
But so am i

Meet me at the fountain
Shove me on the patio
I'll take it slowly
Oh ...

Fifteen minutes with you
Oh, i wouldn't say no
Oh, people see no worth in you
Oh, but i do.
Fifteen minutes with you
Oh, i wouldn't say no
Oh, people see no worth in you
I do
I ... i do
Oh, oh, i do
Oh, i do
Oh, i do


7.Suffer Little Children

Over the moor, take me to the moor
Dig a shallow grave
And i'll lay me down

Over the moor, take me to the moor
Dig a shallow grave
And i'll lay me down

Lesley-anne, with your pretty white beads
Oh john, you'll never be a man
And you'll never see your home again
Oh manchester, so much to answer for

Edward, see those alluring lights ?
Tonight will be your very last night

A woman said : 'i know my son is dead
I'll never rest my hands on his sacred head'

Hindley wakes and hindley says :
Hindley wakes, hindley wakes, hindley wakes, and says :
'oh, wherever he has gone, i have gone'

But fresh lilaced moorland fields
Cannot hide the stolid stench of death
Fresh lilaced moorland fields
Cannot hide the stolid stench of death

Hindley wakes and says :
Hindley wakes, hindley wakes, hindley wakes, and says :
'oh, whatever he has done, i have done'

But this is no easy ride
For a child cries :

'oh, find me ... find me, nothing more
We are on a sullen misty moor
We may be dead and we may be gone
But we will be, we will be, we will be, right by your side
Until the day you die
This is no easy ride
We will haunt you when you laugh
Yes, you could say we're a team
You might sleep
You might sleep
You might sleep
But you will never dream !
Oh, you might sleep
But you will never dream !
You might sleep
But you will never dream !'

Oh manchester, so much to answer for
Oh manchester, so much to answer for

Oh, find me, find me !
Find me !
I'll haunt you when you laugh
Oh, i'll haunt you when you laugh
You might sleep
But you will never dream !
Oh ...
Over the moors, i'm on the moor
Oh, over the moor
Oh, the child is on the moor


8.These Things Take Time(Tate)

My 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 you gave me something that i won't forget too soon
But i can't believe you'd ever care
And this is why you will never care
These things take time
I know that i'm
The most inept
That ever stepped

I'm spellbound; but a woman divides
And the hills are alive with celibate cries
But you know where you came from, you know where
You're going and you know where you belong
You said i was ill, and you were not wrong
But i can't believe you'd ever care
And this is why you will never care
These things take time
I know that i'm
The most inept
That ever stepped

Oh, the alcoholic afternoons
When we sat in your room
They meant more to me
Than any, than any living thing on earth
They had more worth
Than any living thing on earth
On earth, on earth, oh ...

Vivid and in your prime
You will leave me behind
You will leave me behind


9.What Difference Does It Make ?(Tate)

All men have secrets and here is mine
So let it be known
For we have been through hell and high tide
I think i can rely on you ...
And yet you start to recoil
Heavy words are so lightly thrown
But still i'd leap in front of a flying bullet for you

So, what difference does it make ?
So, what difference does it make ?
It makes none, ah
But now you have gone, ah
And you must be looking very old tonight

The devil will find work for idle hands to do
I stole and i lied, and why ?
Because you asked me to !
But now you make me feel so ashamed
Because i've only got two hands
Well, i'm still fond of you, oh-ho-oh

So, what difference does it make ?
Oh, what difference does it make ?
Oh, it makes none, ah
But now you have gone, ah
And your prejudice won't keep you warm tonight

Oh ...
Oh, the devil will find work for idle hands to do
I stole, and then i lied
Just because you asked me to
But now you know the truth about me
You won't see me anymore
Well, i'm still fond of you, oh-ho-oh

But no more apologies
No, no more apologies
Oh, 'cause i'm too tired
I'm so sick and tired, oh
And i'm feeling very sick and ill today, oh
But i'm still fond of you, oh-ho-oh

Oh, my sacred one ...
Oh ...


10.Wonderful Woman(Tate)

Here her head, she lay
Until she'd rise and say:
'i'm starved of mirth;
Let's go and trip a dwarf'

Oh, what to be done with her ?
What to be done with her ?
Oh ...

Ice water for blood
With neither heart or spine
And then just, and then just
To pass time; let us go and rob the blind

What to be done with her ?
Oh, what to ...
What to be said of her ?
Oh ...

But when she calls me, i do not walk, i run
Oh, when she calls, i do not walk, i run
Oh ...
Oh ...

Oh ...


11.You've Got Everything Now(Tate)

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 now
And what a terrible mess i've made of my life
Oh, what a mess i've made of my life

No, i've never had a job
Because i've never wanted one

I've seen you smile
But i've never heard you laugh

So who is rich and who is poor ?
I cannot say ... oh

You are your mother's only son
And you're a desperate one
Oh ...

But i don't want a lover
I just want to be seen ... oh ... in the back of your car

A friendship sadly lost ?
Well this is true ... and yet, it's false
Oh ...

But did i ever tell you, by the way ?
I never did like your face
Oh ...

But you've got everything now
You've got everything now
And what a terrible mess i've made of my life
Oh, what a mess i've made of my life

No, i've never had a job
Because i'm too shy

I've seen you smile
But i've never really heard you laugh

So who is rich and who is poor ?
I cannot say ... oh

Oh ...
You are your mother's only son
And you're a desperate one
Oh ...

But i don't want a lover
I just want to be tied ... oh ... to the back of your car
To the back of your car
To the back of your car
To the back of your car
The back of your car
To the back of your car
Oh ...