The Smiths -
"How Soon Is Now?"

A bit of an acknowledged classic this, from the 1985 album, "Meat Is Murder" - home also to the magnificent "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore".

Phespirit finds the subject matter of this song to be 100% typical Smiths, perhaps with one or two more metaphors than usual, and noteable for the tragically depressing "There's a club if you'd like to go" bit, but it's the infectious vibrating guitar throughout that makes this special.

Little more to be said that the lyrics cannot say themselves .....

Lyrics

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does

There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry
And you want to die

When you say it's gonna happen "now"
Well when exactly do you mean?
See I've already waited too long
And all my hope is gone

You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does