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

Sing your life
any fool can think up words that rhyme ¹
many others do
why don't you?
do you want to?
Sing your life
just walk right up to the microphone
and name
all the things that you love
all the things that you loathe ²
sing your life
all the things that you love
all and the things that you loathe ²
oh sing your life
oh sing your life
ba-dada-dadada, sing your life
ba-dada-dadada, sing your life
Others sang your life
but now's your chance to shine
and have the pleasure of
saying what you mean
have the rare pleasure of meaning what you sing
oh, make no mistake, my friend
all of this will end
so sing it now
all the things you love
all the things you loathe
oh sing your life
all the things that you love
all and the things that you loathe
oh sing your
oh sing your
ba-dada-dadada, sing your life
ba-dada-dadada, sing your life
Don't leave it all unsaid
somewhere in the wasteland of your head
oh, head, oh
head
oh, head, oh
and make no mistake, my friend
your pointless life will end
but before you go
can you look at the truth?
You have a lovely singing voice ³
a lovely singing voice
and all of those
who sing on key
they stole the notion
from you and me ⁴
So sing your life
sing your life
sing your life
oh sing your
oh sing your
sing your life
sing your life
sing your life
oh sing your
sing your life
sing your life

 

² In the KROQ session version of the song as well as on the live version heard on the "Live In Dallas" concert video/DVD, Morrissey sang the first occurrence of this as "all the things you don't love". He did this change for some time on the Kill Uncle tour, mostly during the American dates. Towards the end of the first American leg of the tour, into the following first British leg and the Japanese leg, he changed one line but not the other.

³ On the 1991 Kill Uncle tour, Morrissey often changed this line to "I have a lovely singing voice", as heard in the "Live In Dallas" concert video/DVD.

⁴ On many dates on the Kill Uncle tour when this song was a regular on the setlist, Morrissey sang this line as "they stole the notion from... me!". This can be heard on the officially released "Live In Dallas" concert video/DVD as well as on the KROQ session live-in-radio-studio version of the song.