"Stop Me If You Thing You've Heard This One Before"
(Morrissey/Marr)

 

These lyrics are transcribed in light blue as they appear in the "Strangeways Here We Come" album and are reproduced here without permission. Variations between the printed lyrics and what is sung by Morrissey are indicated in darker text for additions and omissions are deleted.

Stop me, stop me
stop me if you think that you've
heard this one before
stop me, stop me
stop me if you think that you've
heard this one before
nothing's changed
I still love you, oh I still love you
...only slightly, only slightly less than I used to 1
my love
I was delayed, I was way-laid
an emergency stop
I smelt the last ten seconds of life
I crashed down on the crossbar
and the pain was enough to make
a shy, bald buddhist reflect
and plan a mass-murder
who said I'd lied to her?
who said I'd lied because I never, I never
who said I'd lied because I never
I was detained, I was restrained
he broke my spleen
he broke my knees 2
(and then he really laid lays into me) 3
Friday night in Out-patients
who said I'd lied to her?
who said I'd lied - because I never, I never
who said I'd lied - because I never
Oh And, so I drank one 4
or was it It became four
and when I fell on the floor...
...I drank more
stop me, stop me
stop me if you think that you've
heard this one before
stop me, stop me
stop me if you think that you've
heard this one before
nothing's changed
I still love you
I still love you
but only slightly, only slightly
less than I used to 1
my love

 

1 On early dates of the Tour Of The Tormentors MMVI Morrissey sang this line "only slightly, only slightly more than I used to, my love". He then reverted to the original lyrics throughout the summer, and returned to the live change on and off afterwards.

2 On the Tour Of The Tormentors MMVI Morrissey sang "he broke my knee*s*" as it had originally been written and not as it appeared on "Strangeways Here We Come".

3 On the Tour Of The Tormentors MMVI Morrissey sang "and then he really laid into me" as it had originally been written and not as it appeared on "Strangeways Here We Come".

4 At Wolverhampton in 1988 as well as when he did the song on his 2006 tour, Morrissey changed this line to "And so I drank one, or was it four?", as it had been originally written and not as it appeared on "Strangeways Here We Come".