These words are transcribed without permission the way they appear in the Deluxe Edition of "You Are The Quarry" (the lyrics in the regular edition are incomplete and incorrect). Additions to the printed lyrics are in darker text while omissions are striken out.
There is something I wanted to tell you
it's so funny you'll kill yourself laughing
but then I, I look around
and I remember that I am alone / alone / forevermore
The tile yard, all along the railings
up a discoloured dark brown staircase
here you'll find / despair and I
calling to you with what's left of my heart, my heart / forevermore
Drinking tea with the taste of the Thames
sullenly on a chair on the pavement
here you'll find / my thoughts and I
and here is the very last plea from my heart, my heart / forevermore
Where taxi drivers never stop talking
under slate-grey Victorian sky
here you'll find / despair and I
and here I am every last inch of me's yours / yours
forevermore
Your leg came to rest against mine
Then you lounged with knees up and apart
and me and my heart
we knew / we just knew
forevermore
Where taxi drivers never stop talking
under slate-grey Victorian sky
here you'll find / my heart and I
and still we say "come back / come back
to Camden / and I'll be good"
I'll be good
I'll be good
I'll be good
Morrissey, in an interview to i-D magazine in 2004, said: "The song is about a particular person. I have a history, yes. And that whole time in my life is a very emotive period for me." The person in question is assumed to be friend/photographer Jake Walters with who Morrissey lived in Camden in the mid-1990s.