The Smiths are LEGEND.

To me there's a yearning in Morrissey's delivery, like he's longing for something he's missed out on in life due to his own insecurities and deficiencies.

This is one of the greatest songs ever. The romanticism of death is so beautiful it’s sad but it’s a great song

Oh yes! This band was so influential. How Soon Is Now is their most well-known, but they literally don’t have a bad song. Enjoy them! Morrissey’s voice is one of a kind!

Melancholy comes to mind, when I listen to his voice on the song. At the same there is a lot joy within the music.

hugs my friend!

Good reaction mate. Morrissey's a songwriting maestro, a lot of Smiths' lyrics have a hint of sadness to them. If you want, check out 'I know it's over' next!

it makes you feel sad but good at the same time, that is Morrisseys signature.

i love ur reaction

The lyrics can be taken as dark, but I find them (still) inspirational. Meanwhile, the music is simply exceptional.

Great choice this and Morrissey- the first of the gang to die are my favourite songs he sings.

Don't care about your "errors" in your English...enjoying your reactions.

The Smiths is a mile stone :)

From the great sadness comes great inspiration and beauty. That is what Smiths music makes me feel.

You have to learn and comprehend the irony and sarcasm of Morrissey...

Next Smith's Song - "Stop me If you Heard This One Before"

Smiths songs I’d recommend: Ask; Is it really so strange?; barbarism begins at home; rusholme ruffians

The pan pipes..the violins……well what can you say

hello Wally! new subscriber here. I had just recommended The Smiths to a 23 year old guy, about the age when i first really listened to The Smiths and about the age that Morrissey, Marr were making their magic. So i came on to youtbe to remind myself of why i love their music and the special thing that made it speak to me at that particular time in my life. The mix of sadness and somewhat happier music is what i'd call "Joyful Melancholia" . But i think it may need to be said, perhaps what's the missing link that a lot of people didn't quite get the specifics of ...Stephen Morrisey was (is) gay, but he wasn't "out of the closet"and refused to describe himself as one way or other (in ways that no heterosexual singer/writer has ever felt the need to do). so there was a lot of pent up passion and not being specific about gender in his lyrics. The Smiths were "emo" before that became a fashionable brand style, and if you were a young gay man who couldn't say most of what you felt out loud, you found a way to get it out in more ambiguous ways..especially in the early-mid 1980's. So there's a certain amount of self loathing, and morbidity, that comes of having to either lie about your life but certainly not to say just what you want, or who you are. This is why he knew that shyness was nice, but if you don't "ask" you will never know. It may be worth listening to (and reading the lyrics) again with this knowledge in mind. Morrisey felt for Marr in ways that couldn't be reciprocated, and that longing and unrequited feeling fills a lot of their songs, of which Morrisey wrote the lyrics and Marr wrote the music; so with such a symbiotic partnership it was inevitable that it could only end all too quickly (for us fans anyway!), much as the Lennon/McCartney relationship. each continued on with successful careers independent of each other, but that particular partnering (not to forget the amazing work done by the other two band members on guitar and drums), is consigned to a short and very beautiful time in music history. Some of Morrisey's later work continues in a similar vein, but in keeping his songs more wittily ambiguous it allows them to not just be simply "reduced" by critics to "songs that only gay folk will understand". I think anyone who's been a teen, 20 something and lay awake at night thinking that no one understands how they feel, that the world is a horrible place and there's no hope for us would find solace in this exultant misery. a Kind of wallowing in my tears, but there's hope at the end of the tunnel...or a light that will never go out. Thank you Wally for sharing your love for these guys talent and hopefully helping bring it to a whole new generation of fans.

Saudade. The word is saudade.