These words are transcribed without permission the way they appear in the "My Early Burglary Years" album. Additions to the printed lyrics are in darker text while omissions are striken out.

All over this town
yes a low-wind may blow
and I can see through everybody's
clothes with no reason to hide
these words, I feel
and no reason to talk about the
books I read
but still, I do
That's cause I'm a
Sister I'm a ¹
all over this town
Along this way
outside the prison gates
I love the romance of Crime
and I wonder: does anybody feel
the same way I do? ²
and is Evil just something you are?
or something you do?
Sister I'm a
Sister I'm a ¹
all over this town
All over this town
they pull over in their Citroen vans
- but not to shake your hands
With Meths on their breaths
and you with youth on your side
a plastic bag stranded Oh no, no, no-no, waiting at the lights ³
(this once was me) (but not this time)
Sister I'm a ¹
Sister I'm a
all over this town
all over this town
all over this town
all over this town

 

² In the studio version of this song Morrissey sings "the same way I do?" but in live performances he sings this line as it appears in the lyrics booklet ("the way I do").

³ In live performances of this song Morrissey always sings "A plastic bag stranded at the lights, this once was me". On the third American leg of the Greatest Hits tour he took this a bit further: "A plastic bag stranded at the traffic lights, this once was me". Then in early 2008 he sometimes changed that to "a silly fool stranded at the traffic lights..." or "a silly thing..." The published lyrics shown above were based on the live version of the song which is more commonly available than the studio version. Hence, the corrections above with this mark, particularly the correction to the "plastic bag" line, only apply to the studio version of the song. They don't apply to the live version heard on "Beethoven Was Deaf" or "World Of Morrissey".