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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 ...
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Comments/Interpretations
So fucking beautiful.
wonderfull..
*o*
so fucking painful...
Cried as a baby - my situation now, song written 20 years ago
I'm living this song right now, it feels like it could have came out yesterday and been just as relavent
Friends don't let friends listen to the smiths while depressed or connecting.
Yes, this is me. Uncanny.
Poignant, as ever. Goes well with the meal for one
isnt it all of us...always
How is it that he knew so well???
this song is great
Absolutely, totally and eternally overwhelming
Thank you.
I LOVE THE SMITHS AND THIS HAPPENS TO BE THE SONG I CAN RELATE TO THE MOST ITS SO TOUCHING ITS LIKE A MASTERPIECE
She broke my hearth :( I gave her everything and she broke my hearth :(
:( Why? I didn't do anything to deserve what happend to me. :(
the line is 'it takes GOODS to be gentle and kind'
not 'it takes GUTS to be gentle and kind'
the best since 20 years or so
Lost boy in jr. college 20 years ago. I lived these lyrics but now life is good. Thanks
Good God, I'm going to die..
Mother, I can feel.... :(
i really love this song...
He simply loves another girl.
Incredibly beautiful, and Jeff Buckleys hauntingly bitter sweet version is exquisite. His casual thanks & goodbye at the end break my heart.
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 =/
Does anyone know who it is about?
Morrissey is almost certainly gay (although he always said he was celibate).
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.
"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.
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.
so many people, but one soul...
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.
Pure genius...beautiful
"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.
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...
So much of everything ever felt squeezed into a lyric. Magnificent.
oh my god!
can't go a day without this one!
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.
Es la única canción que cuando la escucho me hace llorar. Cómo puede alguien en el mundo sentirse así?
is just so fucking beutiful
is very painful and pretty..
love it
myspace.com/tinguita_jessica
love morrissey
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.
this lyrics make me feel blue
great song,makes me cry
it takes a sad,sad man to write a song like this...a song so piercing and beautiful
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...
oh please call me..
lovely...
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.
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!!!
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...
oh god... i wanna kill myself :(
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...
Beautiful and personal, like I wrote it (if I could).
Depressing... Beautiful.
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
this song is so simply written....
If you can't relate this song to a moment of your life, you never lived...
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!!!!
PWEDE PO BA na hanapin nyo po ang lyrics ITS OVER. PAKIUSAP Lang poh
so sad song
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.
I'm in love with this song.
I'm sorry you love your boyfriend more than me
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.
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
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...
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.
My wife left me and I find myself listening to this more and more.
MORRISEY IS GENIUS
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...
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?
yes, yes, yes isnt this everyones song.. everyone feels pain and shares there relation to songs on comments these days..... need i say lame...
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.
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
"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.
Fucking amazing song even tho i'm not sure what its about.
Best song ever !
Beautiful melancholy.
X
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?!!!
la letra de esta cancion es lo mas romantico y elegante q puede aver....ace ver el suicidio d una forma bastante elegante...
feels like he's talking of me
Devastatingly beautiful and sad. If you can feel this song - then it was written just for you and you alone.
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.
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...
my life in one song, wow.
It's my birthday.. I just loved this song in all ways, positive and negative:)
Fucking amazing
fuck thank u morrissey for this song and last night i dreamt that somebody loved me
Meow.
Hey Jude
This is me, you Fat Duffer!
What went wrong!
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
We should all just be hyper gay together, then we dont have to be alone. *slits wrists*
so painfully perfect!!
Beautiful.
I Hat You
"Though she needs you
More than she loves you"
Brutal. And dead on.
morrisey make me want to puke.
I know it's over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was so real.... :(
Incredibly beautiful..
How difficult it is to find a so meaningful song
I'm living this song as we speak. I dont wish it on my enemies:(
This song is so beatiful. I remember you all The time. I Love you forever and always
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!
Mozza is the lyrical messiah. Everything on the Queen is Dead is genius. Hatful of Hollow is also incredible. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE his work.
"'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.
I know i was wrong.. i messed everything up... but why did you have to leave me.... :,(
Listening to The Smiths is like having someone to talk to that understands..
so damn wonderful song this is..
a great fucking song love it!!! even it if makes me cry haha ♥
its a very good song love it ..... its always make me cry ha..ha..ha..ha..
I haven't cried this hard in a while. Morrisey is amazing
Morrissey, for us average and boring people.
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..
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!!
I made tattoo with "It takes strength to be gentle and kind"
...this song is dangerous.
Amazing piece of art, full of emotion.
I know nothing exists between you and I but that doesn't stop me from hurting inside. Ugh...
surely the most profound song Moz ever wrote
Beautiful
IT NEVER REALLY BEGAN !!!! you two faced cheater
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
Ese momento cuando la música simplemente de distrae del mundo real y a la madre, tienes que volver a leer lo que estudiabas.
Morrissey isn't gay he is Asexual, not that it effects the song in anyway.
Extraordinario.