"Dear God Please Help Me"
(Morrissey/Alain Whyte/Ennio Morricone)

 

These words are transcribed without permission the way they appear in the "Ringleader Of The Tormentors" album. Additions to the printed lyrics are in darker text while omissions are striken out.

I am walking through Rome
with my heart on a string
dear God please help me

And I am so very tired
of doing the right thing
dear God please help me

There are explosive kegs
between my legs
dear God please help me

Will you follow and know
know me more than you do
track me down
and try to win me

Then he motions to me 1
with his hand on my knee
dear God did this kind of thing
    happen to you? 2

Now I'm spreading your legs
with mine in-between
dear God if I could, I would help you

And now I am walking through Rome
and there is no room to move
    but the heart feels free

The heart feels free
the heart feels free
but the heart... feels free

The heart feels free
the heart feels free
but the heart... feels free

The heart feels free
the heart feels free
but the heart...

 

1 On the third American leg of the Greatest Hits tour Morrissey often changed this line to "Then she motions to me".

2 In live performances of this song Morrissey sometimes followed this line with the answer "No..."

 

Quotes

In an interview published in XL Magazine in 2006, Morrissey answered the question "In 'Dear God Please Help Me' you say: 'Then he motions to me / with his hand on my knee...', fans are already talking about it as the 'coming out' song. It has been marked that way..." with the answer "Oh my God. Coming out. From where? To Where? I am myself. End of the story."

At about the same time, in an interview published in the NME, he said "I don't think homosexuality is mentioned in the song. It's a matter of having interest from someone who is a he, which one can't help and can't orchestrate, and so turning to God and saying, 'Did this happen to you?'."