The Smiths - Back To The Old House (Official Audio) 

"and you never knew how much I really liked you couse I never even told you, oh and I meant to" never had I heard such relatable lyrics.

Normally after listening to a song for a while it doesn’t hit you like THAT anymore but this hits me everytime, everyday and everywhere.

I hate being in love.

This is the most soul full, emotional, moving and beautiful song I've ever heard. I am 18 years old and I am a huge fan of the Smiths.

I was a boy in the sixties. With the miracle of google maps, there it was, the house I grew up in. Sometimes it is okay for grown man to cry...

The first time I discovered this song, I listened to it repeatedly for about a month. Still do.

*"I would rather not go back to the old house."* this song for me is the peak of the smiths discography. morrissey is able to convey so much melancholic sorrow in such short lyrics that feel fleeting yet are still impactful. it's as if it was something someone said in a moment of passion without really thinking about the emotional consequences those words have until they finally set in at the very end of the song. *"I would love to go back to the old house, but i never will."*

lyrics ♡ I would rather not go Back to the old house I would rather not go Back to the old house There's too many bad memories Too many memories there When you cycled by Here began all my dreams The saddest thing I've ever seen And you never knew How much I really liked you Because I never even told you Oh, and I meant to Are you still there or have you moved away? Or have you moved away? I would love to go Back to the old house But I never will I never will I never will

"And you never knew , how much i really liked you .. because i never even told you, oh and i meant to." edit: everyone who liked my comment has an amazing taste in music and deserves all happiness in life

Don't mourn their parting, embrace yourself with their music and thank God we had the opportunity to listen to The Smiths

RIP to Andy Rourke. Man with some of the grooviest basslines in all of English Rock. We’re all going to miss you 💔

man i fumbled the bag so hard. now all i do is listen to this song on repeat

This is one of their best songs.

God, i missed the smiths so much

I’ve been doing terrible mentally and this song is one of the only things keeping me going. I love it a lot.

I am sooo obsessed with Johnny Marr and his guitar playing. Just listen to that shit it gives you chills jesus christ.

One of the best songs absolute nostalgia

"Are you still there or have you moved away?"

I grew up in a family of 9, 5 brothers, 1 sister, my parents and myself. The house got foreclosed when I was 17 and we had to move away. We struggled for a long time and got evicted out of multiple places. That old house we grew up in is still there and it’s FULL of good and bad memories. I do want to go back to the old house someday..

screaming and sobbing

Whatever anyone may think of Morrissey now, good or bad, whatever anybody think about how The Smiths split up, or why, we should still celebrate that they existed at all, and created some of the most unique, incredible music ever created. They were heavily influenced, and even more heavily influential, but never, ever replicated. No band ever even came close to this sound.

This song makes me think of a relationship I was in years ago. The “old house” is the girl that I loved.

1:29 that "oh and i meant to" really hits

I am going to regret so many things I'm doing, especially not doing, when I get older. I'll feel nostalgic, but not in a way I want all of this to happen again. In a way I'll feel loss, and grief, and I'll mourn for younger me's dreams that were wasted. I know all this but still do nothing different. I know I will stay the same, old me no matter how many small things about me change, it'll always be bitter

The Smiths, my favorite band from the 80's and even today..🤗💓

I'm back at the old house..feels bad man.

This is truly one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard, with the most relatable lyrics.

It's so nice to have a song that those of who don't look back fondly on our childhoods or teenage years or have mixed feelings on it can relate to. Most songs about childhood or youth look at it nostalgically, but it is not a romantic, wonderful time for everyone

When you cycled by here began all my dreams

when my childhood best friend passed, i didn’t find out till a week later. when i got the call, i was listening to the smiths radio. after i hung up, this song played.

i grew up with the smiths, the cure, new order, interpol, and more. whenever i hear them now i think of my dad and the late night drives we take :))

This song brings back so many memories , one of those memories is when I would constantly deny my love for someone because I was too scared to fall in love again , a part of me wanted to believe that “love” was just a fantasy.. but part of me knew that “love” was real. I remember I would be so scared to tell people that I’m in love , but now I can finally say it with confidence..

Dear random person,you have very good taste🫶🏻

I listen to this song a lot because it reminds me of my best friend. I can never tell them out loud how important they are to me., but I love them so much. Just the thought of them can make my day. I want to spend the rest of my days with them, they are so wonderful.

This song is perfect for when you fall in love with someone who you think will never love you back, and then later you've moved on and have someone else, only to realise they were in love with you too :((

How great this song is, the feeling and the crying never ends. I want to go back to the old house

Nostalgia about childhood years.Everyone missed the old house.Smiths forever...

haunting beauty

It's 3 am and I'm lost mentally

i liked this girl that worked for my mom at her shop. i would see her in the weekends and everytime i’d go we would talk for a while and laugh together, we got along really well. she was one of the most beautiful girls i seen. i could tell she really liked me too. she eventually got another job. never saw her again and didn’t get her number or anything. never told her how much i really liked her. this song kills me

Back to the old house Lyrics: I would rather not go Back to the old house I would rather not go Back to the old house There's too many bad memories Too many memories there When you cycled by Here began all my dreams The saddest thing I've ever seen And you never knew How much I really liked you Because I never even told you Oh, and I meant to Are you still there or have you moved away? Or have you moved away? I would love to go Back to the old house But I never will I never will I never will

One of the best songs ever in my opinion

This song reminds me of this man who lives on my road across from me. Since i moved here he had a little caramel and white dog id always see him take outside or sit on his porch with. I only spoke to him a few times but i could always tell he was a sweet man. A few months ago his dog passed and i don't really see him go outside anymore, but i do see him sit in his doorway still, without his little dog watching the rain and the sun. breaks my heart.

I dedicated this song to my pets that passed away, always gonna miss them. Anywhere they are now i hope they're okay. To the ones that i love: Xena, Salem, Fifito, Ruella... Thanks for eveerything.

Today is my 18th birthday and I'm looking back on all the things I will be leaving behind soon, and all the things I will have missed out on..

imagine if they still made music today

My parents both recently died and we had to sell the old house. My autistic brother plays this over & over & it makes me so sad for him.

This song is just beautiful! Marrvellous!

How can anybody dislike this????

*i'll never forget the first time i heard this song.*

"I would love to go back to the old house, but i never will... i never will, i never will..." i wish i could😓

Oh gosh this song it's too accurate for me, I love it and it makes me sad OMG 🖤😢

I can't believe I've been in this world for 15 years and just recently discovered this masterpiece:(

“When you cycled by, here began all my dreams” felt that

This song hits so hard man. I loved her so much and it was so painful to do it. When we'd talk for hours late into the night everyday even on school nights it was so amazing. She was perfect. She felt like the female version of me. I told her everything and she told me everything, we had inside jokes, she would make me laugh so hard my pillow would be soaked wet from tears. And all that seemingly lost overnight it felt. Suddenly our conversations got drier, she started getting mad at me for small things or things I didn't even do. She started talking shit about me and telling people my secrets. But this was the last straw. She and her friend have been telling me that my best friend was fake and openly saying how much he disliked me and was only friends with me because he felt bad. This stung because I'm so close with him. I tried ignoring him throughout the day but I just couldn't. I texted him about it and he told me they've been telling him the same thing. She's trying to split me and my friends up. I don't know what i did to be hated this much where she's trying to ruin my life. Is she bored? Did I do something? Last night she texted me and apologized saying that she's been upset lately as has been getting mad at everyone especially me. This shocked me because A: She never apologizes ever B: It came right after a long conversation with my sister about how i should just let her go and she texts me that right after. We talked a bit and called for a couple hours like we did before. It felt like old times but I knew it was wrong in the back of my mind. I've tried so hard to fall out of love with her. Words can't ever emphasize how hard I tried to stop thinking about how funny she is, how beautiful her eyes are, the way we'd talk, the way her accent comes out when she gets mad, how hard she would laugh at my jokes and after almost dying follow up with "shut up, you're not even funny" while still laughing, how she'd compliment me, not on purpose, she just said what was on her mind, how she'd listen to me rant about baseball and at least try to understand it, I could go on and on about all the little things I loved about her. Everyone's telling me I need to let her go but I don't think I ever will. I don't think I'll ever be as close with anybody again as I was with her. I really wonder if she knew how much I really liked her. I doubt it.

wow this song is a piece of art... that bass goes crazy

This song always makes me cry. I really miss my childhood but never want to go back..so much bad memories are mixed with nostalgia.

my favourite the smiths song ever it’s so beautifully written

I' m 50, this song describes my life. Sad really. Love hurts, always. I gave my heart and i got so little in exchange ,, so many memories...

I would’ve never thought i could relate to this song.. i’m from Artsakh and about 2 months ago me and 120k of my compatriots became refugees. I miss Artsakh so much i hope i can go back to my house.

Beautiful words,and music.You can't go home again.

there's too many bad memories, too many memories

the most replayed part of the song is " and you never knew how much i really liked you cause i never even told you" im hoping everyone reading this cuts themselves some slack, you deserve it❤

*_Sexta-feira, 18 de Maio de 2019. 9h e 17min._* Brasileiro também gosta de coisas maravilhosas. São poucos perto do mar de antas, mas existem. *_I love The Smiths. The Smiths is timeless_*

RIP Andy Rourke (January 17, 1964 - May 19, 2023), aged 59 You will be remembered as a legend.

this song makes me cry and smile at the same time...

Man I love this song.

oh.. I miss him so much, I wish I could tell him one more time that I love him so much and that I will never forget him, our incredible moments. Now we follow different paths, I lost my big love because of a wrong decision and now he doesn't want to come back... I just wanted to tell him one more time how much I am in love with him, I could say that again.

Such a beautiful song; I never really listened much to the Smith and Morrisey; actually only know the radio plays of them, but this song shows how great they were; I mean, listen to the guitar and how Morrisey curved around his poetry, and this great melody supported by a groovy bassline and just the right rhythm. Brilliant!

when your daughter has less than 5000 snap score and your son searches up “how to upgrade ice staff roflwaffles”

Minha música favorita. Não importa quantos anos passem, sempre estou escutando.

sorry, my English is terrible (especially in writing), but this song.. such a masterpiece, i can't just pass it by. this song reminds me of the girl i loved. she was one hundred percent suitable for me. we were fun teenagers, with lots of ambitions and plans for life, I loved her with all my heart and I thought it would always be like that. as time went on, we grew up, we became farther apart, but it could be overcome. she just decided that I was too complicated for her: our views kept diverging, we fought more and more, and then she started to ignore me and my words. No matter how hard I tried to keep our relationship: she wouldn't compromise. I know it happens a lot. facing this situation personally was a big pain in my life, and it was even more painful to watch her leave me in silence. it reminds me of water running down the drain. I'm still young, and I know that this is not the end of life or love. it's just that this song reminds me of a time in my life when even in the cold autumn, my chest was warm (P.S. I'm a girl, so if you're disgusted by it, just ignore it)

Ashamed to say I'd never really listened to this before, but it came on as I was playing Hatful of Hollow in the car and it literally blew me away with its beauty..such gorgeous semi-classical guitar and perfectly matched yearning nostalgic vocals

I would love to go, back to the old house. But I never will. I never will. I never will.

Man both this one and the acoustic version are incredible.

true story, relatable. "I never even told you, oh and I meant to"...

La primera vez que escuche este tema, me enamore completamente. Que manera de representar toda la angustia y malos recuerdos que te producen las viejas casas en las que hemos vivido parte de nuestras vidas. Grandes The Smiths, unos genios

Essa música tem vários SENTIMENTOS que me identifico

This song sounds so romantic! 🥰

swinging in 80;s times through this song

This makes me think of my childhood living in Maine in the 90s I'm 31 now. Can't say the house I grew up in had bad memories but just the tone of this song makes me think of good times of care free innocence.

"And you never knew , how much i really liked you .. because i never even told you, oh and i meant to." bro.. i feel that...

I relate to this so much more than I would like to. Craving to go back, for memory's sake, but once you're there, you realize what this place meant to you. Your brain remembers your childhood, a time where worry was a foreign concept. But your body, it remembers the rest. It remembers the room where you felt safe, but also where you were trapped. It remembers the living room, where you could only live at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and, if you were in luck, whenever your drunk father wasn't there. It remembers your first ever room, remembers how it was. Remembers how the childish patterns were painted over in blue when your brother inevitably got the room. It remembers how you were only ever in the back. Of pictures, because you were the tallest and you didn't need attention as much as the younger ones. Of the corridor, because you wanted to be far from them. Of the dining tables, always ready to leave as soon as your plate was finished. Because god forbid you didn't like something. God forbid you were full. Your body remembers how it gagged, when your father inevitably made you stay up until midnight to eat your plate, then would serve it back to you for breakfast. Remembers how disgusted you were. Remembers the tears. It remembers how you were never listened to, and eventually stopped listening to yourself. And your brain sees how much it changed. It sees how the new occupants have painted over your brother's blue, over your green, over your sister's gray. Painted over every mark of a nice memory. Painted over your old house, and made it their new one. And you feel so unwelcome. Because you were never welcome, and because you are even less now. You'd want to cry, but you can't. It would be ridiculous. It is already ridiculous. How could you have forgotten ? How could you have ever thought it would be different? And now, you're crying? But you're not just crying because you're not welcome. You're crying because you miss it. You're crying because it's ridiculous that you could miss something that hurt you so much, but you do. And you feel bad. So you go home. The real home. Your real home. And you promise yourself never to go again. One summer, you're bored, and you miss your old house. You've forgotten the promise. You've forgotten last time. And you go back. And it's all the same as before. And you cry, because you were hopeful. Like you always are.

I found the smiths specifically this song after driving by my old childhood home after my brother talked about how he wanted to buy back the house ...what a coincidence what a song ❤

A very striking song for me. Relatable and nostalgic. Thank you.

MY GOD......JOHNNY MARR ON 12-STRING GUITAR.....SIMPLY HEAVENLY......

I miss the old house so much it doesn't even know, it hurts

Love this song, my friday night is much much better now thanks to the smiths

"and you never knew how much i really liked you"

Morrissey & Marr are untouchable.. different gravy. There are not many things in life that I love more than The Smiths 🐐

Ngl i miss her , it's been 6 months and she is the first thing in ma mind when i wake up and she the last thought before i sleep ( she moved on, I'm cooked )

descansa en paz Andy, luchaste para estar en este hermoso grupo, jamás serás olvidado 🖤

RIP Andy Rourke

Just listening to this when sad hits me different

My 14 year old daughter just put the Brit awards on the tv in the front room. I’ve come in the kitchen and put music on instead ❤

I listen to this song and cry for my friend. I can't ever go back to the old house...

Beautiful, Johnny’s guitar playing, a delicacy.

Bro the part where he said "and you never knew how much I really like you cause I never really told you" is so true I really miss the boy I met

i miss my old house .

I miss my old life sm