Morrissey - Late Night, Maudlin Street Lyrics

damn this comment section is depressing. hello fellow (former) depressed teenagers.

No one quite like Steven Patrick Morrissey!

Genious prodigy. Fortunate to see him in Toronto.

My favorite. Fucking beautiful.

Extra verse on this, love it

Late Night, Acomb Street

Nothing is more bitter than something that's sugar coated. Morrissey never sugar coats. Life doesn't get easier or less complicated, just more meaningful and small things matter more.

post seperation, accepting it now but still very sad

ok with some songs being sad, but morrissey really took it too litterally

Still have a soft spot for this,but thank the gods Nirvana came along or Id either be dead or a pretentious wanker by now....

Brilliant lyricist. Gorgeous voice. Such a shame he's a bigoted nutter.

Went back to the smiths style in this. classic moz. too bad hes a nazi

To me this feels like a prelude to Back to the Old House, in a way.

Truly truly I do love this song 👍

Stephen Street: Moz, you didn't need Johnny anyway! Your first solo album will be as good as anything Morrissey/Marr came up with. Beyond this album, tho, you're on your own...

Thank you morrissey, oh my god..

Hee hee! i used to own two t shirts from his band one of them was " meat is murder , the other was s'#'#'t cant remember , oops Anyway i never liked the band ..then i heard this ! wow...!!!his range ...subtle ,and yet the highs ..i like this haha..

The best british singer ever.

The lyrics are poetic, smart, funny n sad, real life xx

I love Viva Hate Soo much,each song bleeds into the next so perfectly.

I'm not sorry; if you thumb down this song you are my enemy for life.

This man.

I never get tired of hearing this beautiful song.

Life is about meaning not happiness!

Only Morrissey can keep my attention. With love.

Seems as good a song as any to be playing 14/02/19, right? Happy v-day to me...

Remastered version was cut at the end. What a crime.

I feel like he's the only one who's almost had a better solo album than his original band

Got a lot of good memories of this song and entire album. It was a magical time in my life.

One of the Best Album from MOZER 😎💙

Like fine wine comments exponential pour into the fluted vessel.

Uma das minha favoritas 🔊🔊❤❤❤❤

I cry when I listen to all the details of this song. This song reminds me of a past lover who left the country where she was raised. It was difficult for her to face such a big change. Her adolescence was difficult, and she always felt sad and alone not having friends.The words Morrissey uses in this song really makes me think of those nights when she would cry about the perils of being a teenager and not knowing what to do with life. I really hope she is better now, and a beautiful adult, just like Morrissey says, “truly I do love you..wherever you are”.

Nothing like being drunk by yourself in central London whilst listening to this song. It was always enough to sober me up amidst being in awe of all the tall buildings and lights in the night time.

Last night in Tinsley with mum and dad at Xmas.
Realised this was the end

My favourite work of art.

‘Every hag waves me on’ line is brilliant

HAG!!!!!

I love the repetitive beat, sounds like the slamming of doors that resound through in an unhappy home.
“Nobody stays up for you” indeed.

brilliant observation - always felt that but never made that connection

A masterpiece.

Remember when Morrissey was Morrissey??

"I'm Not A Man" from 2014 is way better than this though

dean b I haven’t listened to much of his stuff after Vauxhall and I.

@M C Home is a question mark is fantastic well worth a listen

Moz 500 disagree strongly.

Cybil Taylor, one day we will both transcend Maudlin Street and be reunited. P.S. Love at first sight IS trite and unsustainable. "I never stole a happy hour around here...(insert the rest)

that distinctive durutti guitar sound though..

Shame Morrissey couldn't keep this band together and perhaps inevitably he felt out with them. Vini Reilly and Stephen Street was perfect replacements for Marr with some wonderful guitar work on Viva Hate.

matthew coombs I agree, after The Smiths these guys were a good team.

Vini is the best.

This song's lyrics are everything I'd just love to sing to my ex (although we're great friends now), but those feelings never really go away, do they

My favourite

they look you away in police car!!! Crude, real yet... astonishing!

Vini Reilly on guitar RULES

Indeed! This and "sleep will come"...

My favourite Morrissey lyric, Maudlin St was the name of the school in Carry on Teacher

I love this song - when I first heard it start, I thought it might be, well, maudlin - but eventually I was teary-eyed.  Just a brilliant depiction.  "Don't leave your torch behind, a power-cut up ahead (and you might need it).  Clever and with double-edged humor.  :)

Me without clothes a nation turns its back and gags...most touching and funny song by Smiths always brilliant

closer to home than I'd like to admit

Moved out of my flat today and had this in my head all day

I hope that once you had your hi fi set up, you played this...

the song talks about me !! oh God i've been tearful,maudlin, and weepy so much to a limit that costed me to lose beauty and be ugly ! i loved her so much
i hope i marry her .
Pray for that if u see my comment please

https://open.spotify.com/user/1281331406/playlist/3w8mW6kEf3cVf4EjW5bL5F?si=47X3D0gMQ96dJmsys1gqsg

Musica like this song, I hope you like.

"Burn down the disco, hang the blessed DJ, cecause the music that they constantly play, it says nothing to me about my life"

Duruttiesque.

I wish the killers covered this one

Fuck those annoying whiny bitches: "and my tummy luvvs sluttes, I'm mister ballsacque!"

Why did they edit this song in later versions? Plebs. It's genius

What was edited,not heard the original

this reminds me so much of the time, the feeling of love and loss, the comfort of being sad.

I had a car in a foreign country and was the designated driver when my military mates and I went out'; this was the song I played when they were asleep while I carried them home.

Morrissey, a good strong man damned by the mediocre media. We will never forget you.

He's a bit of a drama queen, but overall, yes, a good man.

Oh truly I love you!

"I'm so miserable, and you just don't care!" -- Portia Leach

definitely a stand out track from Viva Hate

en un dia como hoy me acuerdo de tí:(

Brings back memories of my sixth form days.Thank you Mozza

A masterpiece especially 5:43

17-11-2017 Manchester together

This song gripped me in 1988, when I was 10, and made me a Morrissey fan. I am 39 now, and I have always returned to this, and other heartbreaking and life-affirming Smiths and Morrissey songs, of course, throughout the many dramas and untold horrors of my life, but all these years later, this incredible song/poem/play/work of art still seems strangely unknown to the wider world. It is a tiny - given what the world has to deal with - but noteworthy, travesty.

My life

This one makes me think of Coutinho handing in a transfer request.

dan kweed lol

This song is fantabulously evocative of my growing up.

"Women only like me for my mind"?

Church.

Sucks that I can only give one like.

There is nothing not good about this song.

Not an unbad comment  :P

Inspector don't you know don't you know don't you care about love

morrissey has become a jerk but this is a good song

whoaaaa , this song is definitely my one of my favorite if not the favorite. brings back memories from millikan and grant high high in the valley in s. California. my girlfriends, and my 80's music. My memories at home. and young bloody childish boy.

To understand this,one you must be in England living in mid 70s powercut times. With very little to light up your darkness. Tell me I'm wrong!. Don't give me some mid west American shit.

Nick Gall -- Hello Nick. I am American, now 57 years old. The Smiths/Marr & Morrissey have been among my most beloved music since the early 80's. You're post intrigues me as I admit, I know almost nothing of Manchester, Maudlin Street, or the other area's of which Morrissey sings. I kindly and sincerely ask, do you know where I could read, or find video of this old city. I tell you I am envious of any person that was a youth in the 70s and 80s in Britain, only because of the terrific music that was born there, but we Americans truly do not know the hardships that triggered the anger that birthed this movement; The Greatest music in the entire history of Rock! God Bless You Sir. Brian Bosworth, Michigan, USA

Brian Bosworth .My dear man. I am deeply ashamed to say,the present pc government has washed away, most if not all traces of our past. May I suggest visiting the north,especially in winter, living cheap,eating chips,from the local fish and chip shop. Then drinking in working men's clubs,whilst avoiding any southern,at all costs. We don't even have dirty Victorian factory chimneys anymore. Apart from watching the staple films of the day,a kind of loving, a taste of honey, room at the top,billy liar. Try looking up Hannah hauxwell, Fred dibnah,and the like. Whilst playing Jerusalem ,the old hymn. In England's green and pleasant land. I wish you well,my dear friend.

Nick Gall : Thank You Nick. Your gracious reply is very much appreciated. I truly hope to spend an extended vacation in your homeland, and your suggestions are most helpful. I had heard rumor of a movie in production of the early life of Morrissey. I hope to catch that when available. Again, Thank You Sir. Sincerely.

Could have said it better Amy Busch.

Still deep.atached.remain

Sorry Americans . This song belongs in a place of northern england. A place so removed from anywhere else,little box bedrooms,old streets and smoke clued chimneys. Corner shops and chippys. Warm dandelion and burdock. Coal bunkers cheap and yet meaniful life's. We never really escape those times,nor never won't too.....

I, too, enjoyed dying of the whooping cough because I worked down t'pit all day.

Piss off wanker.

We are cousins.

@antisocialite Pants wettingly funny. Bravo.

this song teaches you to feel never stop feeling

a dreamy song, not one I often listen to but whenever I do hear it it puts a spell on me.

Fred Blair same here

I flew back from Ireland to see my pop. My sisters warned me it would be tough to see this man now. Well I tried my very best to be the son he created. We talked laughed and cried. When I said goodbye and kissed him on his head,saying I love you dad!,well I knew it was the the end of my life there forever. So walking slow up the drive in tears,I sang this under my breath. I just had to get far away. Nick Yorkshire England .

Nick Gall very sad but very true as I have been in the very same position myself.

that's such a beautiful sadness. But I believe is the true emotion of the song

did you and your pops fall out prior to going home to yorkshire?

The song that changed my life.... Takes me back to a dark time. But it is where I was and meant to be......and I took strange pills.

Very beautiful song.I´ve always liked this!

Thank you. I almost forgot about this song. Tears came to my eyes when I heard it after a couple of decades.

Goosebumps for me...

whoever thumbs down, I'd smash you..

I love you Elizabeth!!!!!!!!!

mozzer is so a pro at singing and a brilliant songwriter still love Mozzer

Morrissey thank you for helping me navigate adolescence and perhaps even life in general, just when I swore I had moved past it all.. ur voice humbly reminds me ;)

Naͣfiͥsaͣhͪ Oury Bah great words

apart from anything else: vini fucking reilly.

jemimallah yes

Great aong!

Easily as good as anything the Smiths done

Not better, just more mature than anything the smiths done.

Not as good as I know It's Over.

totally agree Alexm799

Long time smiths fan here , Johnny used to live up the road from me so he was a local hero, but morrissey ,is just a genius , this album is fantastic

The statement would carry more validation if you could distinguish between "did" and "done".

the best💓

nostalgic , excelent morrisey !

Magical.

Five people have obviously never been out late at night in Maudlin street

ope now it's 23 dislikes lol. to me the song is the last night in any home. particularly the home with my daughter's father before I left him and we spent the last night as a family.

Tell me tell me

Maudlin is misery

Out of all the Moz solo catalogue, this one hits the spot the most

a woman who loved me silly, a family who I held together, yet never felt more comfortable than being alone.

how are you now?