The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before (Official Music Video)

Official video for Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before by The Smiths

Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before was released in 1987 and features on the group's 1987 album Strangeways, Here We Come.

Lyrics

Stop me, oh, stop me
Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before
Stop me, oh, stop me
Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before
Nothing's changed
I still love you, oh, I still love you
Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love
I was delayed, I was way-laid
An emergency stop
I smelt the last ten seconds of life
I crashed down on the crossbar
And the pain was enough to make a shy, bald, Buddhist reflect
And plan a mass murder
Who said I'd lied to her?
Oh, who said I'd lied because I never? I never
Who said I'd lied because I never?
I was detained, I was restrained
And broke my spleen and broke my knee
And then he really laced into me
Friday night in-out patients
Who said I'd lied to her?
Oh, who said I'd lied? Because I never, I never
Who said I'd lied? Because I never
And so I drank one
It became four
And when I fell on the floor
I drank more
Stop me, oh, stop me
Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before
Stop me, oh, stop me
Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before
Nothing's changed
I still love you, oh, I still love you
Only slightly, only slightly less than I used to, my love

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[alexegoavil]

Johnny Marr is a musical genius.
His guitar comes in and out in a subtle way and it suddenly hits you with melodic mastery.

[ChrMmn]

RIP Andy Rourke. Your bass makes this song bounce with life and shine with light that will never go out.

[kevinhall]

The fact we are still talking about this proves how important the smiths are.

[willr]

That bass line is the stuff of dreams.

[texasBMXer]

"And the pain was enough to make a shy bald Buddhist reflect and plan a mass murder." Only Morrissey could fit those lyrics seamlessly into a song and make them work so well. Absolutely beautiful. That line of lyric not only communicates vividly what Morrissey was communicating, it also is in and of itself a vignette of a compelling story.

[SidneyDeLira]

my father was so in love with the smiths he named his first born son after the lead singer, yep I have a brother named Morrissey
(Its 2020 and I just saw how big this comment got! Also all the replies! Wow)

[Artaud]

This video always makes me think of the way London looked the first time I was there in 1985. Washed out, a bit gray and seedy...wonderful.

[oldskoolcool]

Their sound, lyrics, humour, vibe and sentiment - all completely original and irreplaceable.

[mikedavies]

Morrisey and Johnny Marr could not have been more different as people yet mashed together so beautifully musically

[teresebloom]

The Smiths transcend time. I thought they were amazingly talented when I was in my 20's and their music holds up today.

[prime_memeister]

The Smiths gives me such a nostalgia for a time I’ll never be able to visit. RIP Andy

[Rabmcm]

Morrissey states in his autobiography that he didn’t like this video but I think it is very well done and iconic.

[weseygirl]

I love this slightly more than I used to!

[johnh]

I knew about the smiths when I was young but didn’t get ‘it’.
I’m 42 now and have completely fallen in love with the music....Morrisey’s words touch me in a way no others have...there a beautiful, poetic longing to be loved sung with to a backdrop of rain, sadness and loneliness - I just love them now...I get it.

[charlie]

imagine walking down the street and morrisey comes zooming along on a bike with 50 morrisey look-alikes in tow and they're all just zooming about

[Dravenscrypt]

Seriously, has anyone ever heard anything like this ever? This music is genius!

[danmang]

One of the greatest songs ever written. Definitely one of the top ten greatest Smith's song, if not the best song lyrically and musically.

[thomyoung]

There will never be a band like the smiths

[ezrhino]

I wear my Smiths T shirt around town in CA. To this day, I get more comments than any other shirt. I don't think it's possible to forget this band.

[abdullahmalik]

i love this music and i'm only 8 months old, infact i am writing this straight from my mother's womb. Today's music is garbage.