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

A dreaded sunny day
so I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
a dreaded sunny day
so I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
while Wilde is on mine
So we go inside and we gravely read the stones ¹
all those people all those lives
where are they now?
with loves, and hates
and passions just like mine
they were born
and then they lived
and then they died
which seems so unfair ²
and I want to cry
You say: "ere thrice the sun hath done
salutation to the dawn"
and you claim these words as your own
but I'm well-read, have heard them said
but I've read well and I've heard them said
a hundred times (maybe less, maybe more)
if you must write prose/poems
the words you use should be your own
dont plagiarise or take "on loan"
there's always someone, somewhere
with a big nose, who knows
and who trips you up and laughs
when you fall
who'll trip you up and laugh
when you fall
You say: "ere long done do does did"
words which could only be your own
you and then produce the text
from whence was ripped
(some dizzy whore, 1804)
A dreaded sunny day
so let's go where we're happy
and I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
a dreaded sunny day
so let's go where we're wanted
and I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
but you lose
because Wilde is on mine
Shut up!

¹ At Brixton Academy on 12 December 1986, Morrissey sang "we stonely read the graves". When he resurrected the song on his 2009 Swords Tour, this change was done more and more often as the tour progressed.

² On the 2009 Swords Tour Morrissey usually changed this line to "which seems unfair, I want to die" which is close to the way the song had originally been written before being recorded.

Note: it has be argued that the second to last line of this song is "because weird lover Wilde is on mine" or "because, well the love of Wilde is on mine".