"I Am Hated For Loving"
(Morrissey/Alain Whyte)

 

These words are transcribed without permission the way they appear in the "Vauxhall & I" album. Additions to the printed lyrics are in darker text while omissions are striken out.

I am hated for loving
I am hated for loving
anonymous call, a poison pen
a brick in the small of the back again
I still don't belong 1
to anyone - I am mine
and I am hated for loving
I am haunted for wanting 2
anonymous call, a poison pen
a brick in the ahhh
a
brick in the small of the back again
I still don't belong 3
to anyone - I am mine
I am falling
with no one to catch me
I am falling
and there's still
no one to catch me
anonymous call, a poison pen
a brick in the ahhh
a
brick in the small of the back again
I still just don't belong
to anywhere 4
I just don't belong

 

1 When Morrissey did this song on the 2000 portion of the Oye Esteban tour he often changed this line to the shorter "I don't belong" or the slightly different "I just don't belong".

2 When Morrissey did this song on the 2000 portion of the Oye Esteban tour he almost always changed this line to "haunted for dreaming".

3 When Morrissey did this song on the 2000 portion of the Oye Esteban tour he often changed this line to the slightly different "I just don't belong".

4 When Morrissey did this song on the 2000 portion of the Oye Esteban tour he kept changing the final line to something different such as "I don't want to belong to anywhere" or "I'll never belong to anything" or "I just do not belong to anywhere".

Note: In live performances of this song the "I just don't belong... to anyone", "...to anywhere" and "...to anything" bits were often interchangeable.