This song has yet to appear on an album (the lyrics supplied by the Japanese label in the "Rare Tracks" compilation of 1997 b-sides are incorrect). The song's lyrics are transcribed here as they are heard, without permission.

I came back to my old city
With fierce determination
And I couldn't find my way out of the station
It's all changed
You were there
Departing, starting
A trek I had once took
With that "no-one's gonna stop me when I feel this way" look

Apparent, apparent
Heir apparent
You think it's so easy ¹
I tell you it isn't
But you may change minds
With your winning smile

I fell down in my old city
Such sad degradation
So I tried to make my way back to the station
You were still there
Gleaming and leaving
Wide-eyed and awestruck
Saying "How can anybody hate me if I love them first off?"

Apparent, apparent
Heir apparent
You think it's so easy ¹
I tell you it isn't
But you may change minds
With your winning smile

Heir, heir, heir ²
Heir, heir, heir
Heir, heir, heir
Heir, heir, heir

But you may be OK
I don't know

I'll see you back here
In a few bruised years
(Pray)
I'll see you here
I'll see you here
I'll see you here

Apparent, apparent
Heir apparent
You say that you want it
I'm sure that you'll get it
They'll seduce your heart
And then they'll slap your arse

Heir, heir, heir
Heir, heir, heir
Heir, heir, heir
Heir, heir, heir

 

² Some fans argue that Morrissey actually sings "Heir, heir, aware" while others say that he just sings "Heir, heir, hei-eir in his usual vocal style.