The Smiths ----- Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Released 37 years ago in December of 1987 ... the classic single "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before' from the final studio album by The Smiths, 'Strangeways, Here We Come' - which ended up becoming a much bigger hit worldwide via the Mark Ronson cover version featuring Daniel Merriweather recorded & released 20 years later! It was not released in the #UK as the #BBC objected to the song's lyrical reference to mass murder in the aftermath of the Hungerford Massacre.
Stop me, oh
O-ho, stop me
Stop me if you think that
You've heard this one before
Stop me, oh
O-ho, stop me
Stop me if you think that
You've heard this one before
Nothing's changed
I still love you, oh, I still love you
Only slightly, only slightly less
Than I used to, my love
I was delayed, I was way-laid
An emergency stop
I smelt the last ten seconds of life
I crashed down on the crossbar
And the pain was enough
To make a shy, bald, buddhist reflect
And plan a mass murder
Who said I'd lied to her?
Oh, who said I'd lied?
Because I never... I never!
Who said I'd lied?
Because I never...
I was detained, I was restrained
And broke my spleen, and broke my knee
And then he really lays into me
Friday night in out-patients
Who said I'd lied to her?
Oh, who said I'd lied?
Because I never... I never!
Who said I'd lied?
Because I never...
And so I drank one
It became four
And when I fell on the floor
I drank more...
Stop me, oh
O-ho, stop me
Stop me if you think that
You've heard this one before
Stop me, oh
O-ho, stop me
Stop me if you think that
You've heard this one before
Nothing's changed
I still love you, oh, I still love you
Only slightly, only slightly less
Than I used to, my love