These words are transcribed without permission the way they appear in the "The World Won't Listen" and "Louder Than Bombs" albums. Additions to the printed lyrics are in darker text while omissions are striken out.

Smoke
Lingers 'round your fingers
Train
Heave on - to Euston
Do you think you've made
The right decision this time? ¹
You left
Your tired family grieving
And you think they're sad because you're leaving
But didn't you see the Jealousy in the eyes
Of the ones who had to stay behind?
And do you think you've made
The right decision this time?
You left
Your girlfriend on the platform
With this really ragged notion that you'll return
But she knows
That when he goes
He really goes ²
So And do you think you've made
The right decision this time? ³

 

² In live versions on this song, during the Smiths days on the Queen Is Dead tour (as heard on live album "Rank") or during the solo years on the Boxers, Maladjusted and Greatest Hits tours (as heard on the 1995 "The Boy Racer" cd-single), Morrissey sang this line as "My God he goes!".

³ On the third American leg of the Greatest Hits tour Morrissey sometimes followed this final line with the shouted answer "Me? No!" (or something similar).