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Band: The Smiths
Song: I Know it's Over
Album: The Queen is Dead
Thom Mills dustbin_man@hotmail.com
C Am7
Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
F G C
and as I climb into an empty bed
Am7
oh well, enough said
F G F G
I know it's over still I cling
Em G F G
I don't know where else I can go, mother
(SAME AS ABOVE)
Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
see, the sea wants to take me
the knife wants to slit me
do you think you can help me?
Sad veiled bride, please be happy
handsome groom, give her room
loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
although she needs you more than she loves you
And I know it's over
still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
it's over, it's over, it's over
I know it's over
F
and it never really began
B F G Am
but in my heart it was so real
F G F G
and you even spoke to me and said:
"If you're so funny
then why are you on your own tonight?
and if you're so clever
then why are you on your own tonight?
if you're so very entertaining
then why are you on your own tonight?
if you're so very good looking
why do you sleep alone tonight?
C
I know because tonight is just like any other night
Am7 F G
that's why you're on your own tonight
C
with your triumphs and your charms
Am7
while they are in each other's arms"
F G F
It's so easy to laugh
G
it's so easy to hate
F G Fmaj9 G
it takes strength to be gentle and kind
it's over, over, over
It's so easy to laugh
it's so easy to hate
it takes guts to be gentle and kind
it's over, over, over
Love is natural and real
but not for you, my love
not tonight my love
F G C F
love is natural and real
G F G Em
but not for such as you and I, my love
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
SO THIS IS PRETTY ROUGH BUT SHOULD BE ACCURATE. BASICALLY IT'S THE VERSE
PATTERN AND CHORUS PATTERN OVER AND OVER. THE Am7 HERE IS X02213
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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FrEAk!!! Wanna Be |
#1 by FrEAk!!! Matis at May 23, 1970 at 2:59 PM EST |
| this song was written for me. | |
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Matt Rhythm Player |
#2 by Matt at Jun 12, 1972 at 11:00 PM EST |
| It's about an imagined relationship. The protagonist never really had a real relationship with the bride. But it hurts that she is marrying someone else just the same because he cannot live in hope anymore. | |
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Alex Lead Player |
#3 by Alex Russo at Nov 3, 1975 at 12:56 AM EST |
| I am an avid Smiths fan and would like to offer a analytical interpretation of Morrissey's masterpiece. In an earlier comment by Ilian he states, "The protagonist is regreting because his woman left him..." I am not going to destroy Ilian's interpretation but point out that this statement is pure rejection of Morrissey's state of sexuality. Notcing that Morissey makes no reference to a oarticular gender, it is important we interpret this as intentional and that this song is not focused on particular instantces or recollection. Surely his claim to his mother might be better interpreted of the failure of love to be propoerly defined. The relationship is certianly not a particular, as I mentioned, but fictious and servign to develop Morrisey's points. "Sad veiled bride, please be happy handsome groom, give her room loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly although she needs you more than she loves you " No, this doesnt have to do with Morrissey's lost love marrying or whatever. The anonymous singer speaks of the true nature of relationships limiting it to pure serendepity. In other words, the need for somebody often shall override the lust and desire of a relationship. Also the loud luscious lover is sexual implication of the male that must be tamed in order to prevent disaster. The singer then tells of particular dialogue but it is important to see that this is not actuall events but pruposeful progression towards the finale. The significant other tears apart the singer's qualities stating that after somebody is stripped of such qualities only "triumphs and charms" remain, grasping for survival and they certainly cannot be removed. The singer then exclaims that its easy to perform general emotional qualities , but true lacking is often that of gentleness and kindness that are held only by relentless strength. Then the singer proudly claims elitismwhich is exuded throughout the song claiming that the other person has failed to recognize love. The statement about tonight is the most interesting because it leads to a possible reconcile but the next line scratches such a thought explaining that coesitence thorugh love between the two of them is impossible. Their love is tarnished by the others inability to comprehend love. Morisseys ends with the opening line which now becomes apparent that the singers pain and agony is stemmed by "others" failure to fully realize love. The fictious bed morissey has created might never be occupied with anybody other than the singer. | |
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Renee Wanna Be |
#4 by Renee Saenz at Dec 10, 1980 at 5:55 PM EST |
| I love this song - especially the bit 'If your so funny/clever/entertaining/good looking, then why are you on your own tonight' part. Pure brilliance :) | |
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James Rhythm Player |
#5 by James T.H. at Mar 9, 1981 at 9:03 AM EST |
| A song about somebody who's heart has been broken. This person feels the world is over, and believes something must be wrong with his/her self because this person is not with him/her. One of the Smith's very best in my opinion. Effective lyrics and deeply sad melody. | |
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Chuck Average |
#6 by Chuck Norris at Apr 28, 1981 at 2:17 AM EST |
| zombie, you're a fool. There are many differences between you and morrissey, most notably, he doesn't compare himself to people who are infinitely superior in ever way. He's not gay and he's "from europe you think?!" He's British. Ever heard of England? (And he's from Manchester, Not London) | |
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eric Rhythm Player |
#7 by eric christian at Feb 27, 1983 at 6:54 AM EST |
| What other song captures the suffocating, buried-alive feeling of extreme heartbeak? So powerful! | |
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jacob Average |
#8 by jacob ap at Jun 26, 1986 at 1:44 AM EST |
| the saddest love song i have ever heard. | |
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Average |
#9 by Riqu - at Aug 21, 1986 at 4:59 PM EST |
| The only difference that we (morrissey and i) have is that hes gay,(and hes goodlooking,and good voice) 3 i guess oh and hes from europe i think. | |
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Bobby Wanna Be |
#10 by Bobby Warneke at Aug 16, 1993 at 4:52 PM EST |
| The song is about someone who has never loved and never been in a relationship. He feels the soil falling over his head because he might as well be dead with a loveless existence stretching out before him, and appeals to his mother as the only female figure of importance in his life. The "sad veiled bride" section refers to his jealousy of others ("loud loutish lovers" even), whom he presumably feels he is emotionally superior to and more deserving than, however it is these less pleasant male figures that end up with a woman. "It never really began, but in my heart, it was so real" is referring to his imagination, his hopes, his dreams, none of which have or will ever come true. | |
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Perfect Pervers Rhythm Player |
#11 by Perfect Perversion™ at Jan 10, 1997 at 4:59 AM EST |
| he must have felt sad or just really creative when he wrote this. this person in the song sounds like he could commit suicide... depressing but good song. | |
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Chad Wanna Be |
#12 by Chad Barri at Jun 14, 1997 at 1:14 AM EST |
| Hits home. | |
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scotty 2 hotty Rhythm Player |
#13 by scotty 2 hotty at May 20, 2002 at 5:16 AM EST |
| This song is Beautiful despair that has kept me comfort many times and made me cry even more. When he sings thesea wants to claim me... knife wants to slit me its just a heatbreaking description of what suicidal thoughts feel like, drawn to death because of the werainess of life...sad beyond words in the language. The sad veiled bride is not to my mind the ex lover of the protaganist (Morrissey I assume) he is noting that even this bride is sad, and thus those who are getting married are sometimes in fact oftentimes just as neglected and desperately unhappy as he is being alone and rejected all the time. Love is natural and real but not for you and I my love... he feels kinship with this bride because even though she has someone, she's had to compromise her standards and her true joy in order to not be alone. I can't see that the bride is anything other that a point at which Morrissey compares his fate to those that are coupled and sees that sometimes for some people love just doesn't exist or work and never will and perhaps it is our own characteristics that make love unattainable. | |
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