The Smiths - I Don't Owe You Anything (Official Audio) 

Is so memorable.

1/2 gorgeous 1/2 handsome

He always gets talked about for his controversial views, lyrical prowess or personality but people forget how musical he was. An amazing vocalist and singer.

you mean fap...

Think about what girl?

Elizabeth Garcia just get up that overthinking kills the soul 🙏🏻

My mind is my worst enemy

On one day dance then next day lay in bed. Alternate these until there's no use anymore. At that point you will be fulfilled with both.

Tough

Don’t feel empty, lady. It may seem hopeless but it never is.

@Un usuario común y corriente Yes, why?

I hope you are okay.

Is it such a bad thing to be empty? To have a hatful of hollow, to coin a phrase? It's not bad to be empty. It's not great to stay empty. There IS love, light, life and music still on this planet. I hope you find your fill. I hope I do, too.

Yup

Yeah

Yeah I've been listening since I first discovered them back in 1984 I was 21 now I'm facing 60 in 2023 but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world the 80s were a magical time I'm just glad that younger people have discovered The Smiths and will keep their music alive

yeap 2023 all year long

no but i would if i could

Damn her. She is never kind

"It aint easy keeping pals" emilio estivez

Nailed it.

​@@dannyfirst6544Damn! He nailed it, indeed.

best lyrics

great comment; outside this purple patch of collaboration he is a bit of a lost soul.. nevertheless I would suggest the music is a monumental achievement..a miracle, really. It continues to sustain me, after all these years, and I have many cultural enthusiasms....

Yeah and 60% of the song’s charm and emotion comes from Johnny’s unique jangly guitar

@@sinnerboy6009 well said!

You just describe what is morrisey for me

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He denounced this song too which is just crazy to me bcs it’s such a good song

@@christiankjaer9286 Dude, it's a brilliant song. I genuinely think it's my favourite Smith's number. I didn't even know he wasn't on board with this song wtf

Almost all of his songs including other albums are literary. He put his thoughts and politics in his songs in other albums as well. Such as meat is murder, last night i dreamt somebody loved me, this night has opened my eyes. Talking about not killing animals, discussing the impact of abortion, and playing the coal miners strike audio before he sings is legendary.

@@michaelscottspapercompany6373 There's nothing inherently literary about political views in music, or any art at all for that matter, but I appreciate the sentiment and, further, get your point.

@Donell Williams Literary=literature. Very wide spectrum and general topic. Thanks for your response though.

that’s so beautiful

Made me feel like I was there, thank you.

neat

I love this

boiii

Christopher Griffin oh man , this is my favorite song by them . The whole album is a masterpiece but this song carries too much weight.

But the song opens with, "Bought on stolen wine, A nod was the first step, You knew very well what was coming next."

@@vernonhedge4530Yes… hence he/she said “AND what an opening line”

Not really. Listen to anything hypnagogic or jangle pop and it’s got the same vibe

@Cracker & Cocaine The smiths do it better

deathconsciousness Well, that’s certainly subjective

Objective* what are you, a Fantano copy and paste nuthugger?

@@deathconsciousness7057 Are you really that upset that I don't like the Smiths as much as you do lol? Like, what's actually your problem dude?

the song about not getting laid?

not to many band are timeless in their sound

yeeeeeess

dick the answer is his dick

And if everybody does it nobody goes to nobody

@@Xcandysays I think he's talking about the girl. He's saying that the girl should let the guys come to her. When he says "Just like I do" he's referring to himself approaching girls, and then getting rejected, which is the meaning of the song. Morrissey is disappointed that he worked up the courage to ask someone out only to be shot down.

And yet, I don't heed the words of wise Daddy Moz :/

Amalia Mayer Lol. Good observation 😂❤️👍🏻.

Matthew O Donnell Yeah but she’s still correct. If the man, or woman, says; “I won’t go to them, let them come to you.”, and then neither he nor she makes the move, you’re stuck in a stalemate.

What year were you born in? I was born in 1992 and still had the adolescent experience you talk about inyour comment

Yes you were missing out but better late than never i have been a fan since 1984 i was just about to turn 21 when i first heard their music good times indeed

I can hear it 🗿

@@grassmeili Mee too

“Woah Bart, do you understand what your handling there? That’s a limited edition smiths record”

@@wispyt1638 I got it along with many more;)

Voracious appetite for discovery. We benefited

Agreed

Yes, I generally find something really good that's new about every 1-2 years. Not much I've liked since the 2010s really

Pop music is meant to be easily listened to by a mass audience that will generate revenue. Theirs only so much you can do to achieve that criteria, hence why it all sounds the same and talentless

I totally agree with you.. I only d8scovered the Smiths for myself in recent years and in doing so, recognised the messed up, shy person I was as a bike riding, slum dwelling art student in 1980s Wolverhampton.

and for finish

And during

Works with TV licence enforcement officers too. 😎

you never go to them... you let them come to you? ;)

cry*

Both

The Smiths career was parallel to how The Beatles creativty went.

Golden Light would like a word

@@VirtualInsanity91 golden light is one of the only four music recorded by the smiths that they didn´t writed

@@dazauto1400 The Beatles were only really creative at the end, The Smiths released their best work earlier on

Bleak Northern England generates next level music

I love hearing stories like this

I'm 52yo now and remember when The Queen Is Dead was released, sounded so foreign to me after being bombarded by hair bands and related bullshit....this now, hits me in the heart, and I'm just in love with it

@@markhollandsworth6501 Yeah I know how you feel. There was this girl, a girl who was born in the UK to German parents. Her father was a German teacher in our school and his daughter was beautiful. They were wealthy too and I was from a working class family. They lived in a mansion compared to me and in a really affluent part of town. She was quite spoiled and would have her parents wrapped around her finger and when we were on school holidays, her parents and younger brother would go to Germany for a week at a time to visit family still in Germany and leave her home to look after the house. Well as you can imagine, about 15 of us boys and girls would practically live in her mansion for the entire week. We’d eat there, shower there, take our clothes there. We literally lived there. Her parents would leave her all the money she’d need (I’m talking thousands of pounds) for food, etc, and would never question her. So food and alcohol were aplenty. We’d have week long parties and sleepovers there and they are some of my best memories. We’d be BBQing and drinking all summer there. Anyway, we (the daughter and myself) grew very close. Her parents looked down on me because I was relatively poor. I’d lost my birth mother to cancer by two years old and my father had remarried. Unfortunately my step mother, who I classed as my real mother because I’d grown up only really knowing her as such, she had an asthma attack and dropped dead in front of me when I was nine years old. My point being, my father was a single, working parent of four children from his first wife (my mother) and two step children from his second marriage. Money was extremely tight but we were well raised to be polite and courteous and our grandparents helped a lot. I bring this up only to paint the picture. Me and this girl were worlds apart but found ourselves together. My family were not dirt poor: we were dressed in our Adidas and Kickers boots, Levi’s, etc. We scrubbed up well, put it that way, but I digress. We spent a lot of time together and were merely friends, but the German girls cousin actually had a thing for me and I liked her too. But the more time we spent together, me and the German girl, we started to get closer. We’d often go out drinking up some mountain or somewhere out of the way and on our walks home, me and the German girl would split away from the group. Just walk together and chat. It was becoming clear that we fancied each other. But her cousin was a lovely girl and neither of us wanted to hurt her, so we kept putting it off. Then those times when her parents were home from Germany, we’d spend hours talking on the phone. She had a phone in her bedroom (at 16 years old, back in ‘98ish, which was unheard of) and she’d call me. She’d wait for her parents to go to bed and I’d go to her house and chip her bedroom window (throw little chippings at the window to let her know I was outside) and she’d sneak out to meet me and she’d always leave it to me to steal booze from home so we could have a cheeky drink, and we’d just walk until the early hours. We’d always resist becoming intimate though, because of her cousin. Then one night on one of our walks, she made the move. Only a kiss, but it was amazing. It was a year in the making. I actually have butterflies typing it out. This went on for a few months, just sneaking around and meeting up. It never went any further than the kiss, though. Anyway, after one particularly long phone call, she asked me to meet her and to bring something nice (a bottle of wine instead of the usual, harsh vodka or some other spirits) and after the really intimate conversation we’d had (nothing sexual, just really intense. Her telling me we had to go further and she’d tell her cousin that she liked me and we’d stop hiding it and being in denial) I thought “yes, this is what I’ve been waiting for.” So she asked me to chip her window at about 10pm. It was a really nice summer night. So I go, bottle of red wine in hand, and chip her window. No answer. It’s not like today with everyone having mobile phones, so I was outside for half an hour thinking her parents have got her doing something, so I kept chipping away. Finally she comes to her bedroom window and I say; “You ok? I got the wine, I’ll sit on the wall and wait for you.” She says; “I can’t come out tonight.” I couldn’t believe it. I was like; “I’ve just walked all this way for you to say you’re not coming out. Why ask me if you’re just going to do that?” I was hurt. She was being really offish and I couldn’t understand. She was saying; “I can’t explain now but I can’t come out.” So I said; “So you’ve made me walk all this way to tell me you’re not coming out tonight?” Then it became clear when her cousin came to the window. I said to her cousin; “You ok, Sarah?” What had happened was her cousins parents had decided to stay in so Sarah didn’t have to babysit. So she’d just turned up at Gabi’s house for a sleepover. It became clear to me then that Gabi would not hurt her cousin. I was devastated but respected her. I never bothered with her again. We were still friends and would talk in passing, but that intimacy never returned. I bumped into her in a pub in our early thirties and we were talking about those times. She said she regretted it and I was the one that she let get away. I felt the same but we’d moved on. I’d been with my girlfriend for about ten years by this point (and I’m still with the same girlfriend). I bought Gabi a drink and I’ve never seen her since that night. The memories I will never forget, though. You said you liked those stories, so I thought I’d share why this song reminds me so vividly of a specific time in my life. Sorry for the essay. 👍🏻👍🏻.

@@stanettiels7367 Jesus, God, you should be writing novels. No offense

@@markhollandsworth6501 Well those are kind words. Thanks m8. Not sure an English teacher would agree, lol. 😂👍🏻.

So very very true

Until it is kind.

But what do the lyrics actually mean, though? I really want to like this one but I think I'm misunderstanding the lyrics and that stops me from liking it

@@the-sillycate why is that the case?

@@the-sillycate probably you'd have to get your heart broken to get what he's saying :( I hope you never do though

@@thelawsonman I think he's referring to that interpretation (i've seen it on Genius Lyrics and SongMeanings, at least) that the lyrics are narrated by a man who feels entitled to intimacy with another person. So he's being forceful and demanding ("did I really walk all this way (...)", "but you will, for you must", "You owe me something, repay me now", etc). I get why someone might find that a bit distasteful.

It's awesome..RIp to a very talented, ❤ Andy Rourke

Sounds like a good time to me mate

Really, I thought it was more Dickensian then anything?

Ooooohhh save your life .. cause you've only got one!

Good luck. I've been waiting 4 years for mine. I'm not in denial...nine will never happen. I won't settle though.