Morrissey Songs - Smiler with Knife Lyrics

Morrissey - Smiler with Knife

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Album: World Peace Is None of Your Business
Released: 2014

Smiler with Knife Lyrics

See in me the side of you
That sometimes makes you jump with fright
Smiler with Knife, it's your big night

Sinking bed, all warm and clean
Only sadness waits for me
Smiler with knife you're just in time
You're just in time

Press the blade against my skin
Never to make love again
Smiler with knife it's alright

Surrender will I am before you
I am sick to death of life
Smiler with knife, alight
Alight

If such things weren't meant to be
Then they would never come to me
Smiler, oh, don't worry so

Slamming one shots, gentle pain
Someone calling out my name
Sex and love are not the same
Are not the same

Time has frittered long and slow
All I am and was will go
But where to and why now?

When my last breath falls away
Smiler, trust me when I say:
"You'll be okay"
"You'll be okay"

Writer/s: MORRISSEY, STEVEN / TOBIAS, JESSE ALEJANDRO
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Smiler with Knife

This mostly acoustic tune finds Morrissey singing of a deeply wounded, tortured guy begging some former lover to "press the blade against my skin." Producer Joe Chiccarelli recalled to Radio.com : "We used an acoustic piano that's been distorted, and there's also some backwards piano fills that have been treated through a guitar amp. So, some of the sounds that sound like guitar on that song is actually piano."

The title phrase originates from Chaucer's The Knights Tale:

"The smiler with the knife under the cloak
The stable burning with the black smoke
The treason and murder in the bed."