"Friday Mourning"
(Morrissey/Alain Whyte)

 

These words are transcribed without permission the way they appear in the Deluxe Edition of Morrissey's "You Are The Quarry" album (lyrics found in the "Swords" album are incomplete). There are no variations between the printed lyrics and what is sung by Morrissey.

Friday mourning
I'm dressed in black
Douse the houselights
I'm not coming back
For years I warned you
Through tears I told you
Friday mourning
There comes a time
A flaw that breaks
This very smug mug of mine
This dawn raid
Soon put paid to all the things
I whispered to you at night time
And I will never stand naked
In front of you, or if I do
It won't be for a long time 1
Look once to me
Look once to me-then look away
Look once to me-then look away
And when they haul me down the hall
And as when they kick me down the stairs
I see the faces all lined up before me
Of teachers and of parents
And bosses, who
All share a point of view
"you are a loser
you are a loser"
(loser)
a loser
a loser
a loser

Friday / Friday mourning
Dressed in black
I won't be coming back
Friday / Friday mourning
Dressed in black
I won't be coming back
(ad libs)

 

1 On the You Are The Quarry tour Morrissey sometimes changed this line to "it won't be for a lifetime".