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BILLY BUDD Lyrics

Artist: Morrissey
Album: Vauxhall & I

Say, Billy Budd
So you think you should ?
Oh, everyone's laughing
Say, Billy Budd
So you think that you should ?
Everyone's laughing !
Since I took up with you

Things have been bad
Yeah, but now it's 12 years on
Now it's 12 years on
Yes, and I took up with you

I took my job application
Into town
Did you hear ? They turned me down
Yes, and it's all because of us
Oh, and what was in our eyes
Oh, what was in our eyes, yeah

I said, Billy Budd
I would happily lose
Both of my legs
I would lose both of my legs
Oh, if it meant you could be free
Oh, if it meant you could be free

(Don't leave us in the dark!)

Comments/Interpretations

by kari sanchez (mOzZeR cHiKa) on 2/19/2009 1:38pm
sounds like u cant get over someone... the moz god

by Izura on 7/23/2012 2:41am
It is inspired by the book Billy Budd, from Hermann Melville. Billy was the "pretty sailor" of a ship, basically a very good and naive man, who happens to kill a man, a vicious man. Billy gets executed for his crime, i think thats what "If it meant you could free" line means. Good people should suffer, possibly that`s what he meant on the song. Very nice song, been hearing it a lot.