Paint A Vulgar Picture (2011 Remastered Version)
 作词 : MORRISSEY, STEVEN PATRICK
 作曲 : MORRISSEY, STEVEN PATRICK
Paint A Vulgar Picture - The Smiths

At the record company meeting

On their hands - a dead star

And oh  the plans they weave

And oh  the sickening greed

At the record company party

On their hands - a dead star

The sycophantic slags all say :

"I knew him first  and I knew him well"

Re-issue   Re-package   Re-package
Re-evaluate the songs

Double-pack with a photograph

Extra Track (and a tacky badge)

A-list  playlist

"Please them   please them  "
"Please them  "
(sadly  THIS was your life)

But you could have said no
If you'd wanted to

You could have said no

If you'd wanted to

BPI  MTV  BBC

"Please them   Please them  "
(sadly this was your life)

But you could have said no

If you'd wanted to

You could have walked away

   Couldn't you

I touched you at the soundcheck

You had no real way of knowing

In my heart I begged "Take me with you

I don't care where you're going   "

But to you I was faceless
I was fawning  I was boring
Just a child from those ugly new houses

Who could never begin to know

Who could never really know

Oh
Best of   Most of
Satiate the need

Slip them into different sleeves

Buy both  and feel deceived

Climber - new entry  re-entry

World tour   ("media whore")

"Please the Press in Belgium  "

(THIS was your life   )

And when it fails to recoup
Well  maybe :

You just haven't earned it yet  baby

I walked a pace behind you at the soundcheck

You're just the same as I am

What makes most people feel happy

Leads us headlong into harm

So  in my bedroom in those 'ugly new houses'

I danced my legs down to the knees

But me and my 'true love'

Will never meet again

At the record company meeting

On their hands - at last   - a dead star
But they can never taint you in my eyes

No  they can never touch you now

No  they cannot hurt you  my darling

They cannot touch you now

But me and my 'true love'

Will never meet again