Cemetry Gates

Album: The Queen Is Dead (1986)
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  • A dreaded sunny day
    So I meet you at the cemetry gates
    Keats and Yeats are on your side
    A dreaded sunny day
    So I meet you at the cemetry gates
    Keats and Yeats are on your side
    While Wilde is on mine

    So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
    All those people, all those lives, where are they now?
    With-a loves, and hates and passions just like mine
    They were born, and then they lived, and then they died
    Seems so unfair, I want to cry
    You say: "'Ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn"
    And you claim these words as your own
    But I've read well and I've heard them said
    A hundred times, maybe less, maybe more

    If you must write prose and poems the words you use should be your own
    Don't plagiarise or take "on loan"
    'Cause there's always someone, somewhere with a big nose, who knows
    And who trips you up and laughs when you fall
    Who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall
    You say: "'Ere long done do does did"
    Words which could only be your own
    And then produce the text from whence was ripped
    Some dizzy whore, 1804

    A dreaded sunny day, so let's go where we're happy
    And I meet you at the cemetry gates
    Oh, Keats and Yeats are on your side
    A dreaded sunny day, so let's go where we're wanted
    And I meet you at the cemetry gates
    Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose
    'Cause whale blubber Wilde is on mine
    Sugar Writer/s: Johnny Marr, Steven Morrissey
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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