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Sunday, January 31, 2010

There is a light that never goes out: Classic 80s song by The Smiths

DOG STAR remembers this song very well.  At a night time sweet sixteen party, someone put on this record and we all started dancing in a backyard strung with paper lanterns and then...well, that would just be sharing too much information, right?

You wouldn't want to hear a DOG STAR teen story, anyway!

Discover great "old" music from the 80s with this song from the British group The Smiths.  They have long broken up now but their frontman, Morrissey, still makes records and tours.

We have included the lyrics to read BEFORE watching the video of Morrissey performing the song at a concert.  We have also included a recent cover of the song by indie New York singer Daniel Cartier.

Take me out tonight
where there's music and there's people
who are young and alive
driving in your car 
I never never want to go home
because I haven't got one anymore

Take me out tonight
because I want to see people
and I want to see life
driving in your car 
oh please don't drop me home
because it's not my home, it's their home
and I'm welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus 
crashes in to us 
to die by your side
is such a heavenly way to die 
and if a ten ton truck 
kills the both of us
to die by your side
well the pleasure, the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
and in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last 
but then a strange fear gripped me
and I just couldn't ask

Take me out tonight
oh take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
driving in your car 
I never never want to go home
because I haven't got one
no, I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus 
crashes in to us 
to die by your side
is such a heavenly way to die 
and if a ten ton truck 
kills the both of us
to die by your side
well the pleasure, the privilege is mine

There is a light that never goes out
There is a light that never goes out
There is a light that never goes out
There is a light that never goes out






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