Album: Bona Drag (1989)

Charted: 6

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• Dear hero, imprisoned
  With all the new crimes
  That you are perfecting
  
  Oh, I can't help quoting you
  'Cause everything
  That you said rings true
  
  And now in my cell
  Well, I followed you
  And here's a list of who I slew
  
  Reggie Kray, do you know my name?
  Oh, don't say you don't
  Please say you do, ohh ohh
  
  I am the last of the famous
  International playboys
  The last of the famous
  International playboys
  
  And in my cell
  Well, I loved you
  And every man with a job to do
  
  Ronnie Kray, do you know my face?
  Oh, don't say you don't
  Please say you do, ohh ohh
  
  I am the last of the famous
  International playboys
  The last of the famous
  International playboys
  
  In our lifetime those who kill
  The news world
  Hands them stardom
  
  And these are the ways
  On which I was raised
  These are the ways
  On which I was raised
  
  I never wanted to kill
  I am not naturally evil
  Such things I do
  
  Just to make myself
  More attractive to you
  Have I failed?
  
  Oh, the last of the famous
  International playboys
  The last of the famous Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

• Steve from Chino HillsI believe this song is also satire about the lack of personal space fans give celebrities. Reggie and Ronnie Kray were famous gangsters in England in the 1960s. It's absurd to think that someone would be so devoted to the Kray Brothers that they would kill people just to follow them to prison just to try to get a chance to try to impress them. But after showing the list of who he killed to the Krays the subject confesses that killing and death really isn't in his nature. He just did it to be famous and to make himself look attractive (interesting) to the Krays. Morrissey is a quiet, private man and invasions of his privacy from adoring fans must weigh on him.
• Dan from Norwalk, CaThe Krays (1990), written by the Bethnal Green born artist and dramatist Philip Ridley, starred brothers Gary and Martin Kemp of the band Spandau Ballet as the Krays.
• Simon from Manchester, EnglandHe also mentions the international playboys, he refers to himself as such and he has also stated the few international playboys that left their status' behind, one of them includes David Bowie AKA Ziggy Stardust.

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