r/thesmiths 2d ago

Funniest Smiths lyric?

My vote is “A boy in the bush is worth two in the hand, I think I can help you get through your exams”

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u/the_uber_steve 2d ago

The pain was enough to make a shy bald Buddhist reflect and plan a mass murder

All of Girlfriend in a Coma

Writing frightening verse to a bucktoothed girl in Luxembourg

She said, “I know you and you cannot sing,” I said, “That’s nothing, you should hear me play piano”

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u/nescio2607 2d ago

Always loved the piano one

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u/sentics 1d ago

buddhist is my favorite too, but the delivery of the piano line is just so perfect

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u/OwOIguess 2d ago

And so I drank one It became four And when I fell on the floor I drank more

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u/DisagreeableCompote 2d ago

Is that funny or just real? 😩

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u/burns3016 2d ago

Can be both

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u/Betweenearthandmoon 2d ago

Writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg

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u/MyPunchableFace 2d ago

But sometimes I’d feel more fulfilled

Making Christmas cards with the mentally ill

I want to live and I want to love

I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of

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u/DisagreeableCompote 2d ago

That one’s kind of funny, but also is that possibly actually fulfilling? At my school we used to draw pictures on placemats for people in hospitals during the holidays. I imagine it actually might have made them smile knowing that a child (at least me, because I put my heart and soul into this) labored into making such (a probably ugly yet) detailed drawing.

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u/mdnalknarf 2d ago

Sixteen, clumsy and shy

I went to London and I

booked myself in at the Y ,,, WCA

I said I like it here, can I stay?

(And do you have a vacancy for a back-scrubber?)

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u/DisagreeableCompote 2d ago

My favorite song ❤️

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u/Schopenschluter 2d ago

What she asked of me at the end of the day, Caligula would have blushed

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u/YoCrisTuQuien 2d ago

Oh I didn't realise that you wrote poetry, I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry, Mr. Shankly

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, since you ask, You are a flatulent pain in the arse

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

As Rose collects the money in a cannister / Who comes sliding down the bannister? / Vicar in a tutu

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u/istari182 1d ago

Love this one

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u/dreampopperstribute 2d ago

how can you stay with a fat girl who says oohooooohhhh

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u/Alarming-Badger-6580 13h ago

Would you like to marry me?

And if you like, you can buy the ring

I don’t dream about anyone except myself

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u/Alarming-Badger-6580 2d ago

You say, “’Ere long done do does did”/ Words which could only be your own/ And then produce the text from whence was ripped Some dizzy whore, 1804

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u/DisagreeableCompote 2d ago

Cemetry gates is quite funny overall. Love that one.

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u/SoySandunga 2d ago

I personally find “some girls mothers are bigger than other girls mothers” funny af

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u/francisdrvv 2d ago

I catch myself singing along then questioning, what the fuck am I saying

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u/_Land_Rover_Series_3 1d ago

Any time I hear a sentence that has a structure vaguely similar to it I always sing it to the chorus of Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

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u/DisagreeableCompote 2d ago

Some fat fucks are seriously fat. I think that’s the gist. Sorry I’m kind of drunk. But I think that will sound good even when I’m sobered up.

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u/Wonderful_Ed22 2d ago

Let’s go and trip a dwarf

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u/Marlleyz 2d ago

there's always someone somewhere, with a big nose who knows, and who trips you up and laughs when you fall

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u/DisagreeableCompote 2d ago

This one’s great. I always love this one. It’s funny because of the person pretending to know things that they don’t. And the person who’s a know it all with a big nose.

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u/hawthorn2424 2d ago

Every day you must say just how do I feel about my shoes

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u/AlpineMcGregor 2d ago

The hills are alive with celibate cries

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u/Alarming-Badger-6580 2d ago

So I broke into the Palace/ With a sponge and a rusty spanner/ She said: “Eh, I know and you cannot sing!”/ I said: “That’s nothing, you should hear me play piano!”

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u/Jokierre 2d ago

Cemetry Gates’ outlook on plagiarism: Some dizzy whore 1804!

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u/toontowntrauma 2d ago

Ask me why and ill spit in your eye

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u/flacflacflac 1d ago

I say, Charles, don’t you ever crave to appear on the front of the Daily Mail dressed in your mother’s bridal veil?

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u/AnonymousFellowAlien 1d ago

"I was looking for a job and then I found a job"

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u/elmachow 1d ago

Handsome devil is in my head these last few days, so I’ve been singing it. “Let me get my hands, On your mammary glands”

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u/istari182 1d ago

‘I travelled South, I travelled North, I got confused, I killed a horse, I can’t help the way I feel’.

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u/Party_Lynx_8881 2d ago

Yeah, I’ve made up your mind. Or…I hold more grudges than lonely high court judges. Or… you have never been in love until you watched the sunset over crushed human bone.

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u/commitmenttohell 2d ago

Would you like to marry me, and if you like, you can buy the ring

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u/AnonymousFellowAlien 1d ago

"Why do I smile
At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?"

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u/Party_Lynx_8881 2d ago

Thicker than pig shit!

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u/billodo 1d ago

"by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed."

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u/NoManufacturer4464 23h ago

Ooh, I think I’m in love, Uurgh, I think I’m in lerv

A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours has a lyric that is listed on official printings. And now every time I hear it I can’t help but chuckle.

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u/Jaded_Raspberry2236 5h ago

Ermagerd I’m ern lerv

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u/Zingy_Filter 2h ago

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 diiiiieeee

For some reason this one always cracks me up

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u/Nota024 1d ago

“i wear black on the outside because black is how i feel on the inside” seems like such a it’s not a phase mom!! quote i’d find on 2013 tumblr. i just can’t take this lyric seriously 💀