Late Night, Maudlin Street - Morrissey

Winter coming

Winter push on (push on)

Oh, winter push on

Winter is so long

Winter moves on

The last night on Maudlin Street

Goodbye house

Goodbye stairs

I was born here

And I was raised here

And I took some stick here

Love at first sight

May sound trite

But it’s true, you know

I could list the details

Of everything you ever wore

Or said, or how you stood the day

And as we spend the last night

On Maudlin Street

«Goodbye house-forever!»

I never stole a happy hour

Around here

Where the world’s ugliest boy

Became what you see

Here I am—the ugliest man

It’s the last night on Maudlin Street

And truly I do love you

Oh, truly I do love you

When I sleep with that picture of

You framed beside my bed

Oh, it’s childish and it’s silly

But I think it’s you in my room

By the bed

Yes, I told you it was silly

And I know I took strange pills

But I never meant to hurt you

Oh truly I love you

I came home late one night

Everyone had gone to bed

Nobody stays up for you

I had sixteen stitches

All around my head

The last bus I missed to Maudlin Street

So, he drove me home in the van

Complaining: «Women only like me for my mind…»

Don’t leave your torch behind

A power cut ahead

1972, you know

And so we crept through the park

But no I cannot steal a pair of jeans

Off a clothesline for you

But you without clothes

Oh I could not keep a straight face

Me without clothes?

Well a nation turns its back and gags

I’m packed

I am moving house

A half-life disappears today

Every hag waves me on

Secretly wishing me gone

Well, I will be soon

Oh I will be soon

There were bad times on Maudlin Street

They took you away in a police car

Dear Inspector, don’t you know?

Don’t you care?

Don’t you know about love?

Your gran died

And your mother died

On Maudlin Street

In pain and ashamed

With never time to say

Those special things

I took the keys from Maudlin Street

Well, it’s only bricks and mortar!

And… truly I do love you

Wherever you are

Wherever you are