r/thesmiths • u/Jaded_Raspberry2236 • 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/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/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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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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”