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I KNOW IT'S OVER Lyrics

Artist: The Smiths

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
And as I climb into an empty bed
Oh well. Enough said.
I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Oh ...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
See, the sea wants to take me
The knife wants to slit me
Do you think you can help me ?
Sad veiled bride, please be happy
Handsome groom, give her room
Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
(Though she needs you
More than she loves you)
And I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Over and over and over and over
Over and over, la ...
I know it's over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was so real
And you even spoke to me, and said :
"If you're so funny
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
And if you're so clever
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very entertaining
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very good-looking
Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
I know ...
'Cause tonight is just like any other night
That's why you're on your own tonight
With your triumphs and your charms
While they're in each other's arms..."
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind
Over, over, over, over
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
Over, over
Love is Natural and Real
But not for you, my love
Not tonight, my love
Love is Natural and Real
But not for such as you and I, my love
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my ...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can even feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my ...

Comments/Interpretations

by Pyramid Head on 6/24/2008 2:16pm
So fucking beautiful.
by cro mozzer on 7/1/2008 1:27pm
wonderfull..
by nani on 7/5/2008 9:24pm
*o*
by ferris on 7/6/2008 5:16pm
so fucking painful...
by The boy with the thorn in his side on 7/10/2008 10:51am
Cried as a baby - my situation now, song written 20 years ago
by Eastcida on 7/18/2008 11:19pm
I'm living this song right now, it feels like it could have came out yesterday and been just as relavent
by Brian on 7/19/2008 5:00am
Friends don't let friends listen to the smiths while depressed or connecting.
by James on 7/20/2008 5:35am
Yes, this is me. Uncanny.
by RW on 7/28/2008 3:29pm
Poignant, as ever. Goes well with the meal for one
by Robin on 7/28/2008 8:56pm
isnt it all of us...always
by Peter on 8/18/2008 12:30pm
How is it that he knew so well???
by yy on 8/21/2008 7:50pm
this song is great
by Tatjana on 9/18/2008 10:24am
Absolutely, totally and eternally overwhelming
by Steve on 9/19/2008 11:01pm
Thank you.
by EMANUEL on 9/23/2008 1:21am
I LOVE THE SMITHS AND THIS HAPPENS TO BE THE SONG I CAN RELATE TO THE MOST ITS SO TOUCHING ITS LIKE A MASTERPIECE
by just someone from the crowd on 10/1/2008 3:59pm
She broke my hearth :( I gave her everything and she broke my hearth :(
by Worse broken heart in the World on 10/6/2008 5:18pm
:( Why? I didn't do anything to deserve what happend to me. :(
by wrong! on 10/14/2008 12:06am
the line is 'it takes GOODS to be gentle and kind'
not 'it takes GUTS to be gentle and kind'
by krokus on 10/15/2008 2:54pm
the best since 20 years or so
by Lost boy now a man on 10/17/2008 12:56am
Lost boy in jr. college 20 years ago. I lived these lyrics but now life is good. Thanks
by Maggie May on 10/22/2008 1:49pm
Good God, I'm going to die..
by Archangel on 10/25/2008 5:40am
Mother, I can feel.... :(
by Confused!! on 10/25/2008 1:38pm
i really love this song...
He simply loves another girl.
by Willow on 10/29/2008 11:26pm
Incredibly beautiful, and Jeff Buckleys hauntingly bitter sweet version is exquisite. His casual thanks & goodbye at the end break my heart.
by Lost my life support on 11/14/2008 10:16pm
perfect for someone like me, from the looks of these comments i guess this pain has a way of bringing like minded people together

too bad we're all alone =/
by Grubbanax on 11/20/2008 9:18pm
Does anyone know who it is about?
Morrissey is almost certainly gay (although he always said he was celibate).
by Caroline on 11/29/2008 1:19pm
I like how most songs by the Smiths make you feel like they're about you. And it's good to know that a lot of people feel this way, it connects people.
by Daydream Believer on 11/30/2008 7:03am
"love is natural and real but not for you my love" -slimply heart wrenching lyrics. Beautiful but so depressing. I can connect to the lyrics, sadly.
by Valerie...healing on 12/2/2008 5:27pm
Listened to Jeff Buckley sing as I read the lyrics, Im lost for words, so excruatingly painful and magnificantly beautuful......I feel just as raw as when he told me there was someone else. Istn it strange to think that all us mere mortals are capable of feeling such pain, and some of us capable of seeing the beauty in it.
by betina on 12/10/2008 2:18pm
so many people, but one soul...
by jake of this place on 12/10/2008 3:21pm
When I first heard it, I hated it.
But some things happened... and now it's relevant to me.
And it's better every time I hear it.
by This Charming Man on 12/10/2008 3:50pm
Pure genius...beautiful
by Unhappy on 12/15/2008 8:16am
"It's so easy to laugh/It's so easy to hate/It takes strength to be gentle and kind"

So so true. I keep having to remind myself of this every time I speak to my ex girlfriend who I still love and miss dearly.
by Clouded sunshine on 12/21/2008 3:29pm
Searing irony that my ex also loved the Smiths and this song is so poignant... I know it's over And it never really began But in my heart it was so real... Ultimately, he'll end up on his own at night, but still I cling...
by Vicar in a tutu on 12/21/2008 5:02pm
So much of everything ever felt squeezed into a lyric. Magnificent.
by ori on 12/28/2008 11:06am
oh my god!
can't go a day without this one!
by Cogswell on 12/30/2008 9:13pm
Response to: wrong! on 10/14/2008 12:06am
The line is "Guts". It takes guts to be gentle and kind. This is classic Morrissey. If you own the CD all you have to do is open the case to see the lyrics. Every Smith's album included the lyrics.
by Cristina on 1/14/2009 11:11am
Es la única canción que cuando la escucho me hace llorar. Cómo puede alguien en el mundo sentirse así?
by Death eater girl<3 on 1/28/2009 4:50pm
is just so fucking beutiful
is very painful and pretty..


love it
myspace.com/tinguita_jessica

love morrissey
by Musiclover on 2/20/2009 11:57am
Way overrated. Ne Me Quitte Pas is far more poignant (and tuneful). Morrissey is one of the most overfeted artists out there. I just don't get it.
by nicky on 2/23/2009 3:38am
this lyrics make me feel blue
by dilara on 2/23/2009 4:22am
great song,makes me cry
by the.one.you.left.behind on 2/23/2009 1:37pm
it takes a sad,sad man to write a song like this...a song so piercing and beautiful
by Mind@ease on 2/25/2009 5:55pm
this song makes me think on
a lonely day..

right when he says "If you're so funny
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
And if you're so clever
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very entertaining
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very good-looking
Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
I know ...haha beautiful song overall...
by sandy on 3/9/2009 4:45pm
oh please call me..
by a charming man on 3/13/2009 9:04pm
lovely...
by Little Baby Nothing on 3/16/2009 9:34am
I'm on the other side of this, the person it's written about & it still hurts, even if you're not the one at the sh*tty point of the love triangle. The bit that says "if you're so.... why are you on your own tonight?" just sums up what I want to say to him. If he was as funny/clever/entertaining/good looking as he thinks he is, maybe he wouldn't be on his own tonight. These words work for everyone involved, not just the one who ends up alone.
by penisgonzales on 3/17/2009 4:09am
I believe he has succeeded in truly synchronizing himself with the core of his soul, which in return amplifies the transcending multi-dimensional definition of humanity we all are. It resonates within all of us because it is the sum of our experience channeled via music. It's something that our biological vessels are sometimes limited and tormented by, not being able to convey the true divine substance. That's why I lost her, and she'll never know how I feel. It is subjective pain. I love you all!!!
by fascistbourgeoisiepigdog on 3/24/2009 8:11pm
This used to be the song I most identified with, ever - to the point where I was convinced morrisey had plagiarised my thoughts. Now I have a beautiful wife, four beautiful children and a life which back then seemed an impossible dream; things change...
by me only me only me on 3/29/2009 9:24am
oh god... i wanna kill myself :(
by no one kill themselves... on 4/5/2009 12:37pm
a love is a personal journey.. learn your lesson.. you can not be forgotten. impossible. if you are really able to enter this song.. take a deep breath, listen to it and dance and be proud with your signature you have given to your and his/ her life.. you are beautiful...
by o'niallain on 4/7/2009 3:42pm
Beautiful and personal, like I wrote it (if I could).
by Pink on 5/14/2009 2:50pm
Depressing... Beautiful.
by Markus Grey on 6/17/2009 12:30pm
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
by lodger on 7/1/2009 11:02am
this song is so simply written....
by Rosiel on 7/15/2009 2:56pm
If you can't relate this song to a moment of your life, you never lived...
by Awesome song... on 7/19/2009 3:17am
This song speaks nothing but the truth... For anyone who is in the middle of a relationship! The words are magnificant and overwhelming morrissey is so keen in how he expresses himself in his songs!!!!
by MIKAELLA T. ALBERTO on 7/24/2009 3:21am
PWEDE PO BA na hanapin nyo po ang lyrics ITS OVER. PAKIUSAP Lang poh
by cecy on 7/31/2009 4:48pm
so sad song
by a compulsive daydreamer on 7/31/2009 6:14pm
I can relate SO much to all of it, but specially to the part when it says "I know it's over and it never really began, but in my heart it was SO real"
It's unrequited love... big dreams that never came or will come true. :( weeps.
by Sebastian on 8/24/2009 6:13pm
I'm in love with this song.
by Nobody on 9/4/2009 1:55am
I'm sorry you love your boyfriend more than me
by life is over on 9/7/2009 11:20pm
It IS about unrequited love. I was 13 when this song came out and I'm now 36, and I still feel like I live inside the song. I will be alone forever. At least Morrissey understands.
by Irish Blood on 9/9/2009 8:21pm
This is the song that saved my life all those years ago, when I thought I was the only one whose world had fallen apart....one of my favourite Smiths songs...I still worship at the alter of Morrissey
by Caitlín on 9/11/2009 11:18am
This song hurts every time I hear it, but it is a lovely pain, a beautiful pain...though I have only ever been unrequited, and 21 years isn't that long, it seems like I've lived for a millennium on my own. I would love to meet Morrissey, my muse, his passions and pains are just like mine...
by Ella on 9/23/2009 6:54pm
Seriously, i love this song, because it's so true and it speaks for real things, it;s not just one of those common songs about breakups and parties. So true.
by Damion on 9/24/2009 6:03pm
My wife left me and I find myself listening to this more and more.
by Gauche. on 9/28/2009 2:08am
MORRISEY IS GENIUS
by misty.. on 10/7/2009 8:30pm
ah. the people we love sometimes cause us the most pain. in which we can listen to the beautiful moledy of a man named morrissey's voice and feel like someone else actually understands this pain...
by Karen on 12/29/2009 4:18am
Moz' MASTERPIECE

"I know it's over - still I cling I don't know where else I can go"

Who doesn't feel that way when a relationship ends?
by bah. on 2/1/2010 11:09pm
yes, yes, yes isnt this everyones song.. everyone feels pain and shares there relation to songs on comments these days..... need i say lame...
by berel on 2/17/2010 5:50pm
i feel like this song today.
especially the part where it says it takes strenght to be gental and kind. it does it really does. I know he doesn't love me.
by Shogun on 2/19/2010 5:14pm
this song is the story of my life. she left me for dead when all that i gave her is my life, and i know it is over
by jello on 2/25/2010 12:21pm
"I know it's over- still I cling I don't know where else I can go"



felt this for the past year and a half, sadly.
by Curefreak on 3/8/2010 2:16am
Fucking amazing song even tho i'm not sure what its about.
by Noodle on 4/17/2010 4:08am
Best song ever !
by SilentViolent on 4/23/2010 7:21am
Beautiful melancholy.
X
by smithers on 4/26/2010 2:23am
The amount of passion and emotion put into this song is fucking mindbubbling, how could a human pick lyrics and music out of thin air and make such a powerful song that will touch and effect peoples lives for EVER?!!!
by oliver smith on 5/3/2010 10:46am
la letra de esta cancion es lo mas romantico y elegante q puede aver....ace ver el suicidio d una forma bastante elegante...
by Luca on 5/7/2010 5:40am
feels like he's talking of me
by Jono on 5/23/2010 11:42am
Devastatingly beautiful and sad. If you can feel this song - then it was written just for you and you alone.
by Soph on 6/3/2010 9:19pm
Never heard of the Smiths until I watched a show that listed the top 10 albums of the 80s. I knew ever album but one called the queen is dead. When I picked it up it blew my mind. The Album is Pure Gold.
by Gabe on 6/16/2010 7:33pm
This has to be by far the most beautiful song of all time. I am going through a divorce right now and pretty much listen to this song at least once a day and just cry. This song touches my soul...
by letz on 6/27/2010 9:27am
my life in one song, wow.
by Jacob on 7/5/2010 3:19pm
It's my birthday.. I just loved this song in all ways, positive and negative:)
by Me on 7/9/2010 6:58pm
Fucking amazing
by suicde sleep on 8/8/2010 5:08am
fuck thank u morrissey for this song and last night i dreamt that somebody loved me
by Fluffy on 9/6/2010 4:00pm
Meow.
by Mike on 9/16/2010 5:46am
Hey Jude
This is me, you Fat Duffer!
What went wrong!
by Mallory Alene on 11/8/2010 6:34am
I love this song and listen to it over and over. Ah it brings me to this place where my eyes even get a little teary :/ sadly
by sadguy on 12/6/2010 1:06pm
We should all just be hyper gay together, then we dont have to be alone. *slits wrists*
by mozzling on 12/8/2010 1:00pm
so painfully perfect!!
by Roxane on 1/10/2011 3:00pm
Beautiful.
by umair khilji on 2/21/2011 6:07am
I Hat You
by S.O. on 5/6/2011 2:11pm
"Though she needs you
More than she loves you"

Brutal. And dead on.
by mhm on 5/9/2011 11:54am
morrisey make me want to puke.
by Angie on 5/17/2011 3:27pm
I know it's over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was so real.... :(
by Netto on 7/22/2011 6:16am
Incredibly beautiful..

How difficult it is to find a so meaningful song
by Lost In Limbo on 7/31/2011 1:54am
I'm living this song as we speak. I dont wish it on my enemies:(
by Eri on 8/30/2011 4:19pm
This song is so beatiful. I remember you all The time. I Love you forever and always
by man on 9/13/2011 5:16pm
Although morrissey can write some great lyrics, joseph arthur is the best lyricist when it come to writing about past relationships. The man reads my mind and makes it sound beautiful in lyrical form!
by OldPalOfMine on 10/11/2011 7:25pm
Mozza is the lyrical messiah. Everything on the Queen is Dead is genius. Hatful of Hollow is also incredible. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE his work.
by Melissa Kelly on 10/31/2011 2:17am
"'Cause tonight is just like any other night
That's why you're on your own tonight
With your triumphs and your charms
While they're in each other's arms..."

Makes me cry every time, just because it's so fucking true.
by yaz on 12/29/2011 2:26pm
I know i was wrong.. i messed everything up... but why did you have to leave me.... :,(
by Ehh on 1/5/2012 1:39am
Listening to The Smiths is like having someone to talk to that understands..
by Gabbs on 1/11/2012 12:23am
so damn wonderful song this is..
by Lisa on 6/14/2012 4:24pm
a great fucking song love it!!! even it if makes me cry haha ♥
by so on 7/4/2012 9:16am
its a very good song love it ..... its always make me cry ha..ha..ha..ha..
by Crazy on 7/6/2012 4:52pm
I haven't cried this hard in a while. Morrisey is amazing
by striped heart on 7/26/2012 2:48am
Morrissey, for us average and boring people.
by paige on 8/4/2012 11:41pm
Its almost as if this song was written for my situation...i just heard it tonight, and it will always mean something to me now..I love/hate it...its almost too real..
by real smiths fan on 12/27/2012 8:35pm
As a fan of the smiths for over 25 years, not one of these new "wanna be" smiths fans, this song when it was released in 86 was a masterpiece, today, after all we have gone through, is even better today, morrissey, johnny, any, and mike...you guys rock my world!!
by Boris on 2/20/2013 10:59am
I made tattoo with "It takes strength to be gentle and kind"
by gg on 3/18/2013 12:13pm
...this song is dangerous.
Amazing piece of art, full of emotion.
by j on 5/1/2013 6:44pm
I know nothing exists between you and I but that doesn't stop me from hurting inside. Ugh...
by Bunty Caws on 5/29/2013 2:48am
surely the most profound song Moz ever wrote
by Joe on 6/11/2013 5:27pm
Beautiful
by starseed on 7/9/2013 8:37pm
IT NEVER REALLY BEGAN !!!! you two faced cheater
by yes on 7/23/2013 12:20am
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind
Over, over, over, over
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
by Nadia on 2/12/2014 8:47am
Ese momento cuando la música simplemente de distrae del mundo real y a la madre, tienes que volver a leer lo que estudiabas.
by GOD on 3/31/2014 5:27pm
Morrissey isn't gay he is Asexual, not that it effects the song in anyway.
by Humano on 2/14/2016 6:15pm
Extraordinario.








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