"Dial-A-Cliché"
(Morrissey/Stephen Street)

 

These words are transcribed without permission the way they appear in the "Viva Hate" album. Additions to the printed lyrics are in darker text while omissions are striken out.

Further into the fog I fall
well, I was just
following you!
when you said: 1
"Do as I do and scrap your fey ways"
(dial-a-cliché)
"grow up, be a man, and close
   your mealy-mouth!"
(dial-a-cliché)
(dial-a-cliché)
(dial-a-cliché)

But the person underneath
where does he go?
does he slide by the wayside?
or...does he just die?
when and you find that you've organised
   your feelings, for people
who didn't like you then
and certainly don't do not like you now
yet but still you say:
"Do as I do and scrap your fey ways"
(dial-a-cliché)
"grow up, be a man, and close
   your mealy-mouth!"
(dial-a-cliché)
"the Safe way is the only way!
there's always time to change, son!"
yes well I've changed
but I'm in pain!
dial-a-cliché

 

1 In early demos of this song, Morrissey sang this line as "when you say" instead of "when you said".